Reforms with a Female Face: Gender, Liberalization, and Economic Policy in Andhra Pradesh, India

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1213-1232

  Rao, Smriti ^a  

^a ASSUMPTION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; empowerment; India; inequality; micro credit

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; EMPOWERMENT; FIELDWORK; GENDER DISPARITY; LIBERALIZATION; WOMENS STATUS;

ANDHRA PRADESH; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

ARMERIA;

EID: 44549086933     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.06.020     Document Type: Article

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