Measuring Poverty: A New Approach

Published on: 1995-04-26
Page Count: 521 pages
Print Type: BOOK
Categories: Political Science
Maturity Rating: NOT_MATURE
Language: en
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ISBN-13: 9780309176842
ISBN-10: 0309176840
... resources that are available to meet this poverty standard. We considered ... economic analysis covered (Chapter 6); and the potential relationship of the ... explain what we mean by economic poverty, in contrast to other types of ...

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