The BPL census and a possible alternative

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 54-63

  Drèze, Jean ^a   Khera, Reetika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

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