Reducing poverty is a complex and difficult challenge. Poverty has many dimensions. It certainly involves lack of human and physical assets and inadequate material means to acquire food and other necessities. But it also means vulnerability to ill-health, drought, job loss, economic decline, violence, and societal conflict. And it often means a deep condition of disempowerment, even humiliation. The history of poverty during the past few decades is...
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Our dream : a world free of poverty
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Granzow,Sandra.
Our dream : a world free of poverty (English). Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/572401468339052132