Between Group Inequality and Targeted Transfers
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Acknowledgments: I am grateful to Robert Lerman for many discussions on this topic. The data was provided by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics as part of a long term collaborative effort with the World Bank. The help of Dileni Gunewardena is also gratefully acknowledged.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999