A social discount rate for France

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 803-808

  Evans, David ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCOUNT RATE; EUROPEAN UNION; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; POLICY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL POLICY;

EID: 7044233559     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350485042000254638     Document Type: Article

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