The Two Poverty Enlightenments: Historical Insights from Digitized Books Spanning Three Centuries

Poverty and Public Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1-46

  Ravallion, Martin ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

economics; Google Books; government intervention; inequality; Ngram Viewer; policies; poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045160545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19442858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-2858.1173     Document Type: Article

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