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Comprising writings ordered around intentional and imminent 'development', this reader offers a compendium of classical and contemporary debates on development: Adam Smith and Karl Marx meet, among others, Robert Wade, Amartya Sen and Jeffrey Sachs
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of its citizens have successfully escaped severe poverty. This handbook offers a timely and comprehensive overview of … of its citizens have successfully escaped severe poverty. This handbook offers a timely and comprehensive overview of …
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resources, poverty and families, women and health related services, migration and mobility, the effect of civil and …
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"The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and it was in 2014 halved compared to 1990, and now … the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is to a high degree the consequence of the … rapid economic development in a few countries, especially China, but in many countries around the globe poverty is still …
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"This timely Handbook provides a conceptual discussion and a wide empirical presentation of new disruptive forms of innovation producing appropriate technologies, addressing the needs of low-income populations, and providing alternative solutions for sustainable development. The Handbook of...
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Armut ist nicht nur ein statistisches, sondern ein umfassendes gesellschaftliches Phänomen. In diesem Handbuch werden … die wichtigen Dimensionen von Armut in der modernen Gesellschaft abgeschritten …
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What are the methodologies that we should employ for designing and evaluating governmental policy, in light of the profound effects that policies have on the level and distribution of individuals' well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy is a comprehensive,...
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This handbook examines poverty measurement, anti-poverty policy and programs, and poverty theory from the perspective … of economics. It is written in a highly accessible style that encourages critical thinking about poverty. What's known … about the sources of poverty and its alleviation are summarized and conventional thinking about poverty is challenged. …
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