'Decentralised there, centralised here': Local governance and paradoxes of household autonomy and control in north-east Ethiopia, 1991-2001

Africa

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 611-631

  Adem, Teferi Abate ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL SYSTEM; STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 22744450057     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2004.74.4.611     Document Type: Article

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