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Fiscal decentralization in Eastern Europe: a twenty-year perspective
Aristovnik, Aleksander
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Administration, Slovenia
8 June 2012
Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/42075/
MPRA Paper No. 42075, posted 20 Oct 2012 00:29 UTC
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