Good governance and the dilemma of development: What lies beneath?

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-116

  Roy, Indrajit ^a,b  

^a Department of Neurology CARE Institute of Medical Sciences   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Development agendas; Hegemony; Institutional political economy; Self reliance ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047691808     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/SER/mwi002     Document Type: Article

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