Open AccessPolicy response to poverty and inequality in the developing world
Author(s) -
Albert Berry
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
cepal review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1684-0348
pISSN - 0251-2920
DOI - 10.18356/83c9155e-en
Subject(s) - poverty , inequality , development economics , poverty reduction , extreme poverty , economics , welfare economics , economic growth , mathematics , mathematical analysis
By the most common measuring rods for economic progress (per capita income or purchasing power, satisfaction of basic needs) there has been a striking decline in the incidence of poverty in the Third World, and hence in the world as a whole, over the past half century for which fairly adequate data are available. With a constant poverty line of 20
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