Valuing Environmental Costs due to Automobile Pollution in Pakistan
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عنوان ژورنال: THE LAHORE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1811-5446
DOI: 10.35536/lje.1999.v4.i1.a2