Beyond budgetary support: Pro-poor development agendas for Africa

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1501-1523

  Unwin, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT AID; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GLOBAL ECONOMY; POVERTY ALLEVIATION;

AFRICA;

EID: 33746396615     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143659042000308492     Document Type: Article

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