Gender inequality and agrarian change in liberalizing India

The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 63-98

  Jackson, Cecile ^a   Rao, Nitya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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