Markets and childcare provision in New Zealand: Towards a fairer alternative

Childcare Markets: Can They Deliver an Equitable Service?

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 97-113

  Mitchell, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

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