Shifting Sands: Interpreting ‘Developmental’ Leadership in the Pacific Islands.
The capacity for leadership, including political leadership, to improve development outcomes has attracted recent interest within development studies and associated donor agencies. This new approach is a welcome critique of the broadly institutionalist outlook of the good governance agenda; however,...
| Publicado en: | Forum for Development Studies Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 491 - 510 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2013
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