Public policy and economic rights in Ghana and Uganda

Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, and Policy Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 325-344

  Dicklitch, Susan ^a   Howard Hassmann, Rhoda E ^b  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 60449093992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511511257.015     Document Type: Chapter

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