Deconcentration, devolution and donors: Explaining centralisation-Decentralisation cycles in developing countries

Development Economics and Social Justice: Essays in Honour of Ian Livingstone

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 84-96

  Charlton, Roger ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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