Development ethics and human rights as the basis for global poverty reduction: The case of the World Bank

The World Bank and Governance: A Decade of Reform and Reaction

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 29-47

  McNeill, Desmond ^a   St Clair, Asunción Lera ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203969076     Document Type: Chapter

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