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How Is China Impacting African Cities?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2021

Jeffrey W. Paller*
Affiliation:
University of San Francisco, USA
*
Corresponding author: Jeffrey W. Paller (jpaller@usfca.edu)

Abstract

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Type
Dialogue, Debate, and Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The International Association for Chinese Management Research

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Footnotes

Accepted by Editor-in-Chief Arie Y. Lewin

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