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, Poverty -Dynamic and Sustainability Perspectives: Implications for Welfare and Policy with Reference to India, 2003.

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, An Assessment of the UN's Millennium Development Goals and its Millennium Declaration by Clem Tisdell, 2006.

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, China's Goal of Combining Economic Self-Reliance with its Development: Changing Perspectives and Challenges by Clem Tisdell, 2013.

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, Rural Development in Botswana: Experiences from Elsewhere and Emerging Issues by Pelotshweu Moepeng, 2013.

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