The Race to Be the Perfect Nation

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 70-77

  Sonrexa, Juhi ^a   Moodie, Rob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; INDEX METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RANKING;

EID: 84874480551     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: 14678462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2013.12006.x     Document Type: Article

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