Thiwankee Abeywardena Wickramasinghe
Senior Lecturer in Mass Communication, Department of Social Studies, Open University of Sri Lanka

MLA 8
Wickramasinghe, Thiwankee Abeywardena. "The Case for Performance Measurement and Accountability in Sri Lankan Local Government." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 9, no. 9, Sept. 2024, pp. 3695-3712, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i09.032. Accessed Sept. 2024.
APA 6
Wickramasinghe, T. (2024, September). The Case for Performance Measurement and Accountability in Sri Lankan Local Government. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 9(9), 3695-3712. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i09.032
Chicago
Wickramasinghe, Thiwankee Abeywardena. "The Case for Performance Measurement and Accountability in Sri Lankan Local Government." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 9, no. 9 (September 2024), 3695-3712. Accessed September, 2024. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i09.032.

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