How world poverty is measured and tracked

Absolute Poverty and Global Justice: Empirical Data - Moral Theories - Initiatives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 51-65

  Pogge, Thomas ^a,b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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