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Experience of India's (Maharashtra) Employment Guarantee Scheme: Lessons for Development Policy

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  • S. Mahendra Dev, 1996. "Experience of India's (Maharashtra) Employment Guarantee Scheme: Lessons for Development Policy," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 14(3), pages 227-254, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devpol:v:14:y:1996:i:3:p:227-254
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.1996.tb00108.x
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    6. N.C. Saxena & Tim Conway & Cecilia Luttrell & Edward Anderson & John Farrington & Gerard Gill, 2016. "Food Security and the Millennium Development Goal on Hunger in Asia," Working Papers id:11094, eSocialSciences.

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