The politics of industrial policy: Ruling elites and their alliances

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 126-144

  Whitfield, Lindsay ^a   Buur, Lars ^a,b  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

economic development; Ghana; Mozambique; politics of industrial policy; ruling elites; sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893928577     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2014.868991     Document Type: Article

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