From village artisans to industrial clusters: Agendas and policy gaps in Indian rural industrialization

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 81-123

  Saith, Ashwani ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employment; Environment; Government policy; India; Rural small scale industrialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007383541     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0366.00004     Document Type: Article

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