Urban service partnerships,'street-level bureaucrats' and environmental sanitation in Kumasi and Accra, Ghana: Coping with organisational change in the public bureaucracy

Development Policy Review

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-73

  Crook, Richard ^a   Ayee, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; SANITATION; URBAN POLICY; URBAN SERVICE;

ACCRA; AFRICA; ASHANTI; GHANA; GREATER ACCRA; KUMASI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33645947019     PISSN: 09506764     EISSN: 14677679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2006.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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