Poverty and Inequality
- ISBN-10
- 0804748438
- ISBN-13
- 9780804748438
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 185
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Authors
- David B. Grusky, Amartya Kumar Sen, S. M. Ravi Kanbur
Description
This is a collection of essays from leading public intellectuals that identifies major conceptual problems in the analysis of poverty and inequality and advances strategies for reducing poverty and inequality that are consistent with these new conceptual and methodological approaches.
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Other editions
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- 1997
- 153 pages
- Paperback
- W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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