Download This PaperPoverty Reduction
Initiative for Policy Dialogue, 2007
7 Pages Posted: 11 Jun 2007
Abstract
The paper reviews poverty trends and measurements, poverty reduction in historical perspective, the poverty-inequality-growth debate, national poverty reduction strategies, criticisms of the agenda and the need for redistribution, international policies for poverty reduction, and ultimately understanding poverty at a global scale.
It belongs to a series of backgrounders developed at Joseph Stiglitz's Initiative for Policy Dialogue.
Keywords: poverty reduction
JEL Classification: I3, O2
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