The assessment: Financing and managing public services

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 215-234

  Grout, Paul A ^a   Stevens, Margaret ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL PROVISION; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SERVICE PROVISION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0042388459     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/19.2.215     Document Type: Article

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