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Names: Calv- Filipe editor | Boly, Professor Matthieu, editor | Ferry, Elizabeth Emma editor
Title: How transparency works : ethnographies of a global value / edited by Filipe Calv- Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Matthieu Boly, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Elizabeth Ferry, Brandeis University, Massachusetts.
Description: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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