Accounting for Sri Lanka's expenditure inequality 1980-2002: Regression-based decomposition approaches

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 882-906

  Gunatilaka, Ramani ^a   Chotikapanich, Duangkamon ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 73249130797     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2009.00351.x     Document Type: Review

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