The persistence of poverty: Why the economics of the well-off can't help the poor

The Persistence of Poverty: Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can't Help the Poor

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-190

  Karelis, Charles ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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