Localization and corruption: Panacea or Pandora's box?

Managing Fiscal Decentralization

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 46-67

  Gurgur, Tugrul ^a   Shah, Anwar ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 84905199278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203219997     Document Type: Chapter

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