Measuring opportunity inequality with monetary transfers
โ Scribed by Laurence Kranich
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 405 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1569-1721
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