The transition to semiautonomous management of district health services in Cambodia: Assessing purchasing arrangements, transaction costs, and operational efficiencies of special operating agencies

Improving Health Sector Performance: Institutions, Motivations and Incentives-the Cambodia Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 45-75

  Keovathanak, Khim ^a   Annear, Peter Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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