An obsolescing bargain in chad: Shifts in leverage between the government and the World Bank

Business and Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Gould, John A ^a   Winters, Matthew S ^b  

^a University of Colorado College of Nursing   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Bargaining; Chad; Conditionality; Curse; Development; Governance; Investment; Multinationals; Oil; Resource; World Bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548695896     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1199     Document Type: Article

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