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Title Reducing global poverty / Barry B. Hughes ... [et al.].

Imprint Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2009.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  339.46 R249 2009  v.1    ---  Available
Description xvii, 334 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
Series Patterns of potential human progress ; v. 1
Patterns of potential human progress ; v. 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Concepts and measurement -- Drivers and strategies for poverty reduction -- Tools for exploring the future of global poverty -- The IFs base cases: a foundation for analysis -- The future of poverty: framing uncertainty -- Changing the future of poverty: human leverage -- The multiple faces of poverty and its future -- Poverty in a broader context -- The future of global poverty and human development -- Appendix 1: Cross sectional and lognormal formulations for poverty -- Appendix 2: Using lognormal income distributions -- Appendix 3: Deep drivers of economic growth and distribution -- Appendix 4: Countries in UN regions and subregions -- Appendix 5: Points of leverage in international futures.
Subject Poverty -- Government policy.
Income distribution.
Globalization.
Added Author Hughes, Barry, 1945-
ISBN 9781594516399 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1594516391 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781594516405 (pbk.)
1594516405 (pbk.)

 
    
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