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Review: Adam Fforde: Coping with Facts: A Skeptic’s Guide to the Problem of Development

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Review of the Monograph: Fforde, Adam (2009), Coping with Facts: A Skeptic’s Guide to the Problem of Development, Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Pr Inc. ; ISBN-13: 978-1565492684, 246 pages

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  • Michael Waibel, 2011. "Review: Adam Fforde: Coping with Facts: A Skeptic’s Guide to the Problem of Development," Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, Institute of Asian Studies, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, vol. 30(1), pages 125-128.
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