Getting the state right: Think tanks and the dissemination of New Public Management ideas in Ghana

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 443-465

  Ohemeng, Frank Louis Kwaku ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLICY MAKING;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 23844436254     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X05001047     Document Type: Article

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