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What do we mean by ‘poverty’? Can poverty be cured? In 1990 the World Bank published a report on global poverty in which it said that for the poor the 1980s could be described as a ‘lost decade’.

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© 1994 Charles Smith

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Smith, C. (1994). Can We Cure Poverty?. In: Economic Development, Growth and Welfare. Economics Today. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23385-4_4

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