Reviewing public-private partnerships: Some thoughts on evaluation

International Handbook on Public-Private Partnerships

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 81-109

  Hodge, Graeme A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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