Can good projects succeed in bad communities?

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 93, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 899-916

  Khwaja, Asim Ijaz ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective action; Development; Institutional design; Public goods; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649419554     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.02.010     Document Type: Article

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