Public goods and economic development

Understanding Poverty

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Besley, Timothy ^a   Ghatak, Maitreesh ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Developing countries; Incentives; Institution design; NGO; Poor; Public sector contracting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919673449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195305191.003.0019     Document Type: Chapter

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