Sierra Leone: Urban-elite bias, atrocity & debt

Review of African Political Economy

Volumn 32, Issue 103, 2005, Pages 115-133

  Riddell, Barry ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; DEBT; IMF; NEOLIBERALISM; WORLD BANK;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SIERRA LEONE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 20644452442     PISSN: 03056244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03056240500121032     Document Type: Article

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