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Poverty Reduction Must Go Beyond Targeting the Poor
As national governments and international institutions focus on cutting poverty in half to meet the Millennium Development Goals, a new UNRISD report warns that current approaches that target the poor or separate poverty from broader processes of economic growth and development are misconceived.... (more)

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