The strategic choices of NGOS: Location decisions in rural Bangladesh

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 759-787

  Fruttero, Anna ^a   Gauri, Varun ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCATION DECISION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC SERVICE; RURAL AREA;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 21844452930     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220380500145289     Document Type: Article

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