Are poorer states worse at targeting their poor?

Economics Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 373-377

  Ravallion, Martin ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Federalism; Foreign aid; Poverty; Targeting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033235677     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(99)00173-1     Document Type: Article

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