Gender, Environment, and Poverty Interlinks: Regional Variations and Temporal Shifts in Rural India, 1971-91

World Development

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-52

  Agarwal, Bina ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH   (India)

Author keywords

Development; Environment; Gender; Measurement indices; Poverty; Rural India

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; GENDER ISSUES; GENDER ROLE; GENDER-ENVIRONMENT-POVERTY INDEX; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; POVERTY; POVERTY TREND; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES; REGIONAL VARIATION; RURAL POVERTY; RURAL WOMEN;

INDIA;

EID: 0030886607     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(96)00084-8     Document Type: Article

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