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- ↑ http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/tf_slum.htm
- ↑ Elliott D. Sclar (2001). You Don't Always Get what You Pay for: The Economics of Privatization. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8762-0.
