50/50 by 2020: Poverty and redistributive politics in post-independence Fiji

Pacific Economic Bulletin

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 22-35

  Chand, Satish ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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