In-kind food transfers - II: Impact on nutrition and implications for food security and its costs

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 48, Issue 47, 2013, Pages 60-73

  Himanshu, ^a   Sen, Abhijit ^b  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b JNU ^*  (India)

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