Promoting good governance through ICT systems: Improving transparency and reducing corruption

Debt-for-Development Exchanges: History and New Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 260-295

  Laryea, Emmanuel T ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84926135445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511977374.022     Document Type: Chapter

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