Municipal costs of services solid waste collection;Gasto municipal por el servicio de residuos sólidos urbanos

Revista de Economia Aplicada

Volumn 14, Issue 41, 2006, Pages 5-32

  Bel, Germà ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Contracting out; Environmental management; Local government; Privatization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347364649     PISSN: 1133455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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