NGOs, Politics and Grassroots Mobilisation: Evidence from Bangladesh

Journal of South Asian Development

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-99

  Devine, Joseph ^a  

^a a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84993698868     PISSN: 09731741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097317410500100104     Document Type: Article

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