Economic policies in the light of happiness studies with reference to Singapore

Singapore Economic Review

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 199-212

  Ng, Yew Kwang ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Economic policy; Happiness; Public spending; Welfare

Indexed keywords

INCOME; PUBLIC SPENDING; QUALITY OF LIFE; WELFARE IMPACT;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0036824603     PISSN: 02175908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217590802000523     Document Type: Article

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