Linkages between government spending, growth, and poverty in rural India

Research Report of the International Food Policy Research Institute

Volumn , Issue 110, 1999, Pages

  Fan, Shenggen ^a   Hazell, Peter ^a   Thorat, Sukhadeo ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

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