The Adjustment of Central Bodies to Decentralization: The Case of the Ghanaian Bureaucracy

African Studies Review

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 37-57

  Ayee, Joseph R a ^a  

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EID: 84933480855     PISSN: 00020206     EISSN: 15552462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/525156     Document Type: Article

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