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Urban Sanitation: Optimizing Private Sector Involvement

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  1. Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management, University of Ghana Business School, Accra, Ghana

    Emmanuel Lartey, Albert Ahenkan & Peter Adjei-Bamfo

  2. School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Emmanuel Yeboah-Assiamah

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Lartey, E., Ahenkan, A., Yeboah-Assiamah, E., Adjei-Bamfo, P. (2018). Urban Sanitation: Optimizing Private Sector Involvement. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3552-1

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