The capability approach: Insights for a new poverty focus

Journal of Social Policy

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 291-308

  Hick, Rod ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; POVERTY; SOCIAL EXCLUSION;

EID: 84859057783     PISSN: 00472794     EISSN: 14697823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047279411000845     Document Type: Article

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