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Evidence for power-law tail of the wealth distribution in India

✍ Scribed by Sitabhra Sinha

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
182 KB
Volume
359
Category
Article
ISSN
0378-4371

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