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p. 324 ‘well crafted property rights are also the key to wildlife and nature conservation’. Anderson, T. and Huggins, L. 2008. Greener Than Thou. Hoover Institution Press.
p. 324 ‘fish off Iceland’. Costello, C., Gaines, S.D. and Lynham, J. 2008. Can catch shares prevent fisheries collapse? Science 321:1678–80. (doi:0.1126/science.1159478).
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p. 326 ‘Micro-finance banking, mobile telephony and the internet are now merging’. Talbot, D. 2008. Upwardly mobile. Technology Review, November/December 2008: 48–54.
p. 326 ‘opportunities to the poor of Africa that were not available to the poor of Asia a generation ago’. Rodrik, D. (ed.). 2003. In Search of Prosperity. Princeton University Press.
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