Poverty trends in India 2004-05 to 2009-10 updating poverty estimates and comparing official figures

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 48, Issue 40, 2013, Pages 43-58

  Patnaik, Utsa ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

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