Poor Poverty The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies

This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. It is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on b...

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Main Author: Sundaram, Jomo Kwame
Other Authors: Chowdhury, Anisuzzaman
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2011
Series:The United Nations Series on Development
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