What is Poverty?

Author: Nanak Kakwani

Abstract:Reducing poverty has become a major concern of development policy. To inform policy, research on poverty has focused on income or consumption based poverty measures. Yet it is now increasingly realized that poverty is multidimensional, encompassing all important human requirements. Poverty is now widely viewed in terms of capability deprivation. (...)

Keywords:Poverty
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Type/Issue:One Pager/22
ISSN:2318-9118

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