Changing Sources of Household Income, Poverty, and Sectoral Inequality in Sri Lanka, 1990-2006

Developing Economies

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-51

  Kumanayake, Nandika S ^a   Estudillo, Jonna P ^b   Otsuka, Keijiro ^b  

^a Biodiversity Protection Unit   (Sri Lanka)

^b NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Farm and nonfarm labor markets; Poverty reduction; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893876859     PISSN: 00121533     EISSN: 17461049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/deve.12033     Document Type: Article

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