Child poverty as capability deprivation: How to choose domains of child well-being and poverty

Children and the Capability Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 46-75

  Biggeri, Mario ^a   Mehrotra, Santosh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Planning Commission India   (India)

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EID: 84901252406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230308374     Document Type: Chapter

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