Are women economically more empowered in Left-run municipalities? A study of Self Help Groups in West Bengal, India
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Keywords
Self Help Groups; Political structures; India;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- P13 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Cooperative Enterprises
- D79 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Other
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CWA-2010-03-06 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-MFD-2010-03-06 (Microfinance)
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