Informal politics, grassroots NGOS and women’s empowerment in the slums of Bombay1

Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 218-235

  Desai, Vandana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85141091602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203220078-17     Document Type: Chapter

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