Poverty estimates in India: Some key issues

ERD Working Paper Series

Volumn , Issue 51, 2004, Pages

  Sharma, Savita ^a  

^a Planning Commission India   (India)

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INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHODOLOGY; POVERTY;

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