Local government discretion and accountability in philippines

Journal of International Development

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 227-250

  Yilmaz, Serdar ^a   Venugopal, Varsha ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralisation; Local governance; Phillipines

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; DECENTRALIZATION; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POWER RELATIONS;

PHILIPPINES;

EID: 84874321765     PISSN: 09541748     EISSN: 10991328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jid.1687     Document Type: Article

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