Household needs and poverty: With application to Spain and the U.K.

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-98

  Duclos, Jean Yves ^a   Mercader Prats, Magda ^a  

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EID: 0002345541     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1999.tb00313.x     Document Type: Article

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