Structural adjustment and the health care system

IMF and World Bank Sponsored Structural Adjustment Programs in Africa: Ghana's Experience, 1983-1999

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 357-370

  Oppong, Joseph R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

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