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What do we mean by ‘poverty’? Can poverty be cured? In 1990 the World Bank published a report on global poverty in which it said that for the poor the 1980s could be described as a ‘lost decade’.
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© 1998 Gareth Rees and Charles Smith
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Rees, G., Smith, C. (1998). Can We Cure Poverty?. In: Economic Development. Economics Today. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14689-5_4
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