Company interests and foreign aid policy: Playing donors off against one another

European Economic Review

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 533-545

  Villanger, Espen ^a  

^a CHR MICHELSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Conditionality; Foreign aid; Foreign assistance; Triadic

Indexed keywords

AID POLICY; CONDITIONALITY; INTERNATIONAL AID;

EID: 33645149385     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2005.01.005     Document Type: Article

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