Development through Positive Deviance and its Implications for Economic Policy Making and Public Administration in Africa: The Case of Kenyan Agricultural Development, 1930-2005

World Development

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 454-479

  Ochieng, Cosmas Milton Obote ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Africa; agrarian development; conditionality; Kenya; positive deviance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; ECONOMIC POLICY; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33847215079     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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