Social welfare, inequality, and poverty when needs differ
β Scribed by Udo Ebert
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 444 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0176-1714
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