Regional disparities and equalities: Towards a capabilities perspective?

Handbook of Local and Regional Development

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 59-73

  Perrons, Diane ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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