Poor Practices: Contestations around 'Below Poverty Line' status in India

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 415-430

  Fernandez, Bina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLICY APPROACH; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TYPOLOGY; WELFARE ECONOMICS; WELFARE PROVISION;

INDIA;

EID: 77954162954     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2010.488473     Document Type: Article

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