THE VIEW FROM DEPRIVATION: POVERTY, INEQUALITY AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH

Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: a Critical Look Forward

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 45-80

  Rogers, Deborah S ^a   Balázs, Bálint ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Environmental Social Science Research Group   (Hungary)

^c SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

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