Public expenditure choices and gender quotas

Indian Growth and Development Review

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 108-130

  Rajaraman, Indira ^a   Gupta, Manish ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND POLICY   (India)

Author keywords

Gender; Gender quotas; Local government; Public expenditure; Public finance; Randomised reservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867019442     PISSN: 17538254     EISSN: 17538262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538251211268053     Document Type: Article

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