Mandated empowerment: Handing antipoverty policy back to the poor?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1136, Issue , 2008, Pages 333-341

  Banerjee, Abhijit V ^a,b   Duflo, Esther ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipoverty policy; Empowerment; Local control; Microcredit

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMPOWERMENT; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIA; KENYA; MADAGASCAR; MEXICO; POLICY; POVERTY; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 45549095898     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1425.019     Document Type: Review

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