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RENT SEEKING AND DEMOCRACY: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR URUGUAY

✍ Scribed by CÉSAR CALDERÓN; ALBERTO CHONG

Book ID
110929664
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
111 KB
Volume
45
Category
Article
ISSN
0095-2583

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