Agency reform as decision process: The reengineering of the Agency for International Development

Policy Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 81-105

  Auer, Matthew R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; FOREIGN ASSISTANCE; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM;

EID: 0031659195     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004313117017     Document Type: Article

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