Focus-pocus? Thinking critically about whether aid organizations should do fewer things in fewer countries

Development and Change

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 425-447

  Munro, Lauchlan T ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AID POLICY; DEVELOPMENT AID; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK;

EID: 28244455800     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0012-155X.2005.00418.x     Document Type: Review

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