The effects of political reservations for women on local governance and rural service provision
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gender; women; governance; decentralization; local government;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CWA-2009-10-03 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-DEV-2009-10-03 (Development)
- NEP-PBE-2009-10-03 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2009-10-03 (Positive Political Economics)
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