Making Reform Work: Institutions, Dispositions, and the Improving Health of Bangladesh

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 208-218

  Faguet, Jean Paul ^a   Ali, Zulfiqar ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

accountability; Asia; Bangladesh; decentralization; local governance; social development

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; DECENTRALIZATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SERVICE PROVISION; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 56949088379     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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