Income inequality in India: Pre- and post-reform periods

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 45, Issue 37, 2010, Pages 45-55

  Sarkar, Sandip ^a   Mehta, Balwant Singh ^a  

^a Institute for Human Development   (India)

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