Poverty-reducing and welfare-improving marginal public price and price cap reforms

Journal of Public Economic Theory

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 683-698

  Makdissi, Paul ^a   Wodon, Quentin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 34547640258     PISSN: 10973923     EISSN: 14679779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9779.2007.00325.x     Document Type: Article

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