A policy analysis of Victoria's Genuine Progress Indictor

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 864-879

  Clarke, Matthew ^a   Lawn, Philip ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Genuine Progress Indicator; Victoria; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 44249125272     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2006.12.058     Document Type: Article

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