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3 - The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

New Openings for Civil Society in Myanmar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2017

Melissa Crouch
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University of New South Wales, Sydney
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The Business of Transition
Law Reform, Development and Economics in Myanmar
, pp. 32 - 54
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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