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One illness away : why people become poor and how they escape poverty /
Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large numbers are concurrently falling into chronic poverty. This book presents the first large-scale examination of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, UK ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large numbers are concurrently falling into chronic poverty. This book presents the first large-scale examination of the reasons why people fall into poverty and how they escape it in diverse contexts. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 229 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-219) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191612978 0191612979 9780199584512 0199584516 9780191808630 0191808636 9786613296900 6613296902 0191625043 9780191625046 |