Rural public works and poverty alleviation-The case of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in Maharashtra

International Review of Applied Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 131-151

  Gaiha, Raghav ^a   Imai, Katsushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; POVERTY DETERMINANT; VULNERABILITY;

INDIA; MAHARASHTRA;

EID: 0036122042     PISSN: 02692171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02692170110118876     Document Type: Article

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