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General Paper

Transformation of wealth produced into quality of life: analysis of the social efficiency of nation-states with the DEA’s triple index approach

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Pages 1664-1681 | Received 22 Oct 2012, Accepted 03 Sep 2013, Published online: 21 Dec 2017

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