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Poverty, power and RCTs

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  • Kapur, Devesh, 2020. "Poverty, power and RCTs," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:127:y:2020:i:c:s0305750x19304607
    DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104811
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    1. Florent Bédécarrats & Isabelle Guérin & François Roubaud, 2019. "All that Glitters is not Gold. The Political Economy of Randomized Evaluations in Development," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 50(3), pages 735-762, May.
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