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Escaping poverty: Can policy reach the chronically poor?

Escaping poverty: Can policy reach the chronically poor?

Authors: D. Hulme; Chronic Poverty Research Centre, IDPM, UK
Publisher: id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

The past few years have seen remarkable consensus on and commitment to poverty reduction from governments around the world. This has resulted in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which seek to reduce global absolute poverty by 50 per cent by 2015 and to reduce other forms of human deprivation.