The Irrelevance of National Strategies? Rural Poverty Dynamics in States and Regions of India, 1993-2005

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 533-549

  Krishna, Anirudh ^a   Shariff, Abusaleh ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Council of Applied Economic Research   (India)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Economic growth; India; Poverty dynamics

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; ECONOMIC GROWTH; NATIONAL STRATEGY; POVERTY; RURAL ECONOMY;

INDIA;

EID: 79951720438     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.08.011     Document Type: Article

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