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13 - Neoliberal Developmentalism in South Korea and the Unfulfilled Promise of Economic and Social Rights

from PART III - Economic and Social Rights in Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2018

Gillian MacNaughton
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University of Massachusetts, Boston
Diane F. Frey
Affiliation:
San Francisco State University
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