Australian Federal Government Failure: The Rise and Fall of the Home Insulation Program

Economic Papers

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 342-352

  Dollery, Brian ^a   Hovey, Martin ^a  

^a University of New   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D60; decentralisation; government failure; H11; H42; Home Insulation Program

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856889995     PISSN: 08120439     EISSN: 17593441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-3441.2010.00079.x     Document Type: Article

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