Aid effectiveness: Looking at the aid-social capital-growth Nexus

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 510-525

  Baliamoune Lutz, Mina ^a   Mavrotas, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Global Development Network   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AID FLOW; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLICY APPROACH; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

EID: 67949088268     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: 14679361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2009.00504.x     Document Type: Article

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