The growth of public debt in a reforming economy

IMF and World Bank Sponsored Structural Adjustment Programs in Africa: Ghana's Experience, 1983-1999

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 41-76

  Amoako Tuffour, Joe ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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