Reducing Poverty and Inequality in India: Has Liberalization Helped?

Inequality Growth and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Jha, Raghbendra ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capital income; Case studies; Delhi consensus; Economic performance; Economic reform; Income inequality; India; Inequality; Labour absorption; Labour income; Liberalization; Policy reform; Poverty; Privatization; Regional inequality; Rural poverty; Rural urban inequality; Services sector; Skilled workers; Trade liberalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349109007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199271410.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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