Empowerment effects of the NREGS on women workers: A study in four states

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 45, Issue 30, 2010, Pages 45-55

  Pankaj, Ashok ^a   Tankha, Rukmini ^a  

^a Institute for Human Development   (India)

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