Partnerships and the public interest: Assessing the performance of public-private collaboration in solid waste collection in Accra

Space and Polity

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-63

  Post, Johan ^a   Obirih Opareh, Nelson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

GHANA;

EID: 0038007795     PISSN: 13562576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562570309244     Document Type: Article

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