FOOD PRICES, WAGES, AND WELFARE IN RURAL INDIA.
With soaring food prices in recent years has come alarm about rising poverty in the developing world. Less appreciated, however, is that many of the poor in agricultural economies may benefit from higher wages. This study finds that wages for manual labor in rural India, both within and outside agri...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 159 - 177 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan2016
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