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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Tax Collection of Indian States: Estimation from Panel Data Models

By: Sumit Kumar and  Baljit Kaur  
Open Access
|Oct 2023

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Language: English
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Published on: Oct 19, 2023
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