The case for direct cash transfers to the poor

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 37-43

  Kapur, Devesh ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Partha ^b   Subramanian, Arvind ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR POLICY RESEARCH   (India)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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