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Author: Andries du Toit & Diana Mitlin

Andries du Toit & Diana Mitlin

Andries du Toit is the Director of the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, an independent policy research unit at the University of the Western Cape. Diana Mitlin is a Professor of Global Urbanism at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.

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