When does growth trickle down to the poor? The Indian case

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 461-477

  Basu, Santonu ^a   Mallick, Sushanta ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capital formation; Economic growth; Rural poverty; Trickle down effect

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FORMATION; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC THEORY; POVERTY; RURAL ECONOMY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 43149083481     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bem053     Document Type: Article

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