Women's Power Practice: A Household Level Analysis

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Dhaka City, Bangladesh a b

Shahida Pervin , Md. Azam Khan & Md. Mahmud
Hasan Shah a c

Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka, Bangladesh

b

Department of Economics, Jagannath University,
Dhaka, Bangladesh c Department of Economics, Jagannath University,
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Bangladesh, Journal of Comparative Asian Development, 13:1, 174-203, DOI:
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