Reforming or replacing the public distribution system with cash transfers?

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 53-62

  Svedberg, Peter ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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