Is good policy unimplementable? Reflections on the ethnography of aid policy and practice

Development and Change

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 639-671

  Mosse, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AID POLICY; DEVELOPMENT AID; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT;

EID: 7244248572     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0012-155X.2004.00374.x     Document Type: Article

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