POVERTY IN RURAL INDIA: CASTE AND TRIBE
This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) households with the non‐scheduled population. The incidence of poverty in SC and ST households is much higher than among non‐scheduled households. By combining r...
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| Volume: | 54 |
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| Main Author: |
Gang, Ira N
Sen, Kunal Yun, Myeong‐Su |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Zielgruppe: |
Academic |
| Place of publication: |
Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2008 WILEY Wiley Subscription Services, Inc |
| published in: | The Review of income and wealth Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 50 - 70 |
| ORCID: |
0000-0003-3788-8798 |
| Data of publication: | March 2008 |
| ISSN: |
0034-6586 1475-4991 |
| EISSN: |
1475-4991 |
| Discipline: | Economics |
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This manuscript has benefited from discussions with Shubhashis Gangopadhyay and Ajit Mishra, and from comments by the two referees and seminar participants at University College–Dublin, Queens University–Belfast, Bar‐Ilan University, Indian Statistical Institute–Calcutta Centre, Delhi School of Economics, University of East Anglia, College of William and Mary, Graduate School of City University of New York, and the Midwest Economic Association. We thank Richard Palmer‐Jones for helping us with the data. Note |
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| Online Access: | available in Bonn? |
| Database: | Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2008 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS |