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020 _a9780199474950
082 _a305.5690973
_bRAV-E
100 _aRavallion, Martin
245 _aEconomics of poverty
_b: history, measurement,and policy
260 _a New Delhi
_bOxford University Press
_c2016
300 _axxxi, 702p.
504 _aInclude Reference and Index
520 _aThe Economics of Poverty strives to support well-informed efforts to put in place effective policies to assure continuing success in reducing poverty in all its dimensions. The book reviews critically the past and present debates on the central policy issues of economic development everywhere. Martin Ravallion holds the inaugural Edmond D. Villani Chair of Economics at Georgetown University, USA, prior to which he was the Director of the World Bank's research department.
650 _aEconomic
_vPoverty
_vDomestic Discrimination
_vEconomic assistance,
_zUnited States
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_cBK