Solid waste collection in Accra: The impact of decentralisation and privatisation on the practice and performance of service delivery - Titlepage

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Solid waste collection in Accra: The impact of decentralisation and privatisation

on the practice and performance of service delivery

Obirih-Opareh, N.

Publication date

2003

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Obirih-Opareh, N. (2003). Solid waste collection in Accra: The impact of decentralisation and

privatisation on the practice and performance of service delivery. Universiteit van

Amsterdam/AGIDS.

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Solidd waste collection in Accra

Thee Impact of Decentralisation and Privatisation

onn the Practice and Performance

off Service Delivery

ACADEMISCHH PROEFSCHRIFT terr verkrijging van de graad van doctor

aann de Universiteit van Amsterdam opp gezag van de Rector Magnificus

proff mr. P.F. van der Heijden

tenn overstaan van een door het college voor promoties ingestelde commissie, inn het openbaar te verdedigen in de Aula der Universiteit

opp maandag 14 april 2003, te 10.00 uur door r

Nelsonn Obirih-Opareh Geborenn te Accra, Ghana

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Promotores:: prof dr. G.A. de Bruijne proff dr. S. van der Geest Co-promotor:: dr. J. Post

FACULTEITT DER MAATSCHAPPIJ EN GEDRAGSWETENSCHAPPEN

Thiss study was conducted at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Departmentt of Geography and Planning and at the Amsterdam Research Insti-tutee for Global Issues and Development Studies (AGIDS), Universiteit van Amsterdam. .

Photographs:: Mieke Weterings/Nelson Obirih-Opareh Coverr design/maps/layout: I/O-Graph, Utrecht Print:: Repro Roeterseiland, UvA, Amsterdam Publishedd by: AGIDS,

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Thee Impact of Decentralisation and Privatisation

onn the Practice and Performance

off Service Delivery

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