How important to India's poor is the sectoral composition of economic growth?

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-25

  Ravallion, Martin ^a   Datt, Gaurav ^a  

^a WORLD BANK GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; POVERTY REDUCTION; RURAL/URBAN DIFFERENCE; SECTORAL GROWTH;

INDIA;

EID: 0030446063     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/10.1.1     Document Type: Article

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