Global Absolute Poverty: The Evolution of its Measurement
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Global Poverty; Dollar-a-day; Poverty Lines; Absolute Poverty;All these keywords.
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- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
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