Aspirations, poverty, and economic change

Understanding Poverty

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ray, Debraj ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspirations failure; Aspirations window; Collective action; Individual behavior; Poor; Social polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919626789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195305191.003.0028     Document Type: Chapter

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