Social discount rates for the European Union: New estimates

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Incentives in Evaluation: The Structural Funds of the European Union

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 280-294

  Evans, David ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84882016752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781847202383.00021     Document Type: Chapter

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