How can food subsidies work better? Answers from India and the Philippines

ADB Economics Working Paper Series

Volumn 221, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-35

  Jha, Shikha ^a   Ramaswami, Bharat ^b  

^a ECONOMICS AND RESEARCH DEPARTMENT   (Philippines)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK; FOOD SUPPLY; PUBLIC SPENDING; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

INDIA; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 79551597710     PISSN: 16555252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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