Generalized measures of literacy

Mathematical social sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-80

  Dutta, Indranil ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Externality; Literacy; Proximate literates; Public good

Indexed keywords

EID: 1942476909     PISSN: 01654896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2003.09.009     Document Type: Article

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