Income inequality in rural India: Decomposing the Gini by income sources

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 739-748

  Azam, Mehtabul ^a   Shariff, Abusaleh ^b  

^a WORLD BANK GROUP   (United States)

^b National Council of Applied Economic Research   (India)

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