Building and supporting PRSPs in Africa: What has worked well so far? What needs changing?

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 355-376

  Cheru, Fantu ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POVERTY;

AFRICA;

EID: 33144459008     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436590500432689     Document Type: Article

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