Putting ESR-Based Budget Analysis into Practice: Addressing the Conceptual Challenges

Human Rights and Public Finance: Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 41-57

  Nolan, Aoife ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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