Media, Monitoring, and Capture of Public Funds: Evidence from Madagascar

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 242-255

  Francken, Nathalie ^a   Minten, Bart ^b   Swinnen, Johan F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; corruption; Madagascar; media; monitoring; political economy

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; DECENTRALIZATION; MASS MEDIA; MONITORING; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PUBLIC SPENDING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

EID: 56949086925     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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