Bureaucratic imperatives and policy outcomes: The origins of World Bank structural adjustment lending

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 667-686

  Sharma, Patrick ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

budget maximization; International Development Association; International organizations; mission creep; structural adjustment; World Bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881623415     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2012.689618     Document Type: Article

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