Mapping the adverse consequences of sex selection and gender imbalance in India and China

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 48, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 37-44

  Kaur, Ravinder ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

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