Old Problems in the New Solutions? Politically Motivated Allocation of Program Benefits and the " New" Fertilizer Subsidies

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1166-1176

  Banful, Afua Branoah ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Fertilizer; Ghana; Politics; Subsidy

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; FERTILIZER; INNOVATION; POLITICAL INTEGRATION; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

GHANA;

EID: 79957967655     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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