Climate Finance for Adaptation and Sustainable Development in India
By Purnamita Dasgupta & Girika Sharma
Springer Nature (june 2025)
In: Shanmugam, K.R. (eds) India’s Public Finance and Policy Challenges in the 2020s. India Studies in Business and Economics.
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