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Publication Year: 1976
Item Weight: 0.38 lbs
Book Title: Theory of the Expenditure Budgetary Process
Author: Douglas G. Hartle
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Public Finance, Budgeting
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Genre: Business & Economics
