Watta satta : bride exchange and women's welfare in rural Pakistan /
In a setting where husbands wield considerable coercive power, forms of marriage should adapt to protect the interests of women and their families. This paper studies the pervasive marriage custom of watta satta in rural Pakistan, a bride exchange between families coupled with a mutual threat of ret...
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| Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
World Bank, Development Research Group, Poverty Team,
[2007]
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| Series: | Policy research working papers ;
no. 4126 |
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