Basic minimum needs, quality of life and selected correlates: Explorations in villages in Northern India

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 245-281

  Brinkerhoff, Merlin B ^a   Fredell, Kelly A ^a   Frideres, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC MINIMUM NEEDS; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATORS;

EID: 0031433767     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006834830518     Document Type: Article

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