Does decentralization serve the poor?

Managing Fiscal Decentralization

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 68-95

  Von Braun, Joachim ^a   Grote, Ulrike ^b  

^a Institute for Women's Policy Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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EID: 84905209589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203219997     Document Type: Chapter

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