Poverty Decline in India in the 1990s: A Reality and Not an Artifact

Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sundaram, K ^a   Tendulkar, Suresh D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Consumer expenditure surveys; Employment unemployment survey; Mixed reference periods; Uniform reference period; Urban India

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051653786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558032.003.0016     Document Type: Chapter

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