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Reducing global poverty / Barry B. Hughes ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Patterns of potential human progress ; v. 1.Publication details: [Denver] : Pardee Center for International Futures, University of Denver ; Boulder : Paradigm Publishers ; New Delhi : Oxford University Press, c2009.Description: xvii, 334 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9781594516405 (pbk.)
  • 1594516405 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC79.P6 R43 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Concepts and measurement -- Drivers and strategies for poverty reduction -- Tools for exploring the future of global poverty -- The IFs base cases: a foundation for analysis -- The future of poverty: framing uncertainty -- Changing the future of poverty: human leverage -- The multiple faces of poverty and its future -- Poverty in a broader context -- The future of global poverty and human development -- Appendix 1: Cross sectional and lognormal formulations for poverty -- Appendix 2: Using lognormal income distributions -- Appendix 3: Deep drivers of economic growth and distribution -- Appendix 4: Countries in UN regions and subregions -- Appendix 5: Points of leverage in international futures.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-194) and index.

Introduction -- Concepts and measurement -- Drivers and strategies for poverty reduction -- Tools for exploring the future of global poverty -- The IFs base cases: a foundation for analysis -- The future of poverty: framing uncertainty -- Changing the future of poverty: human leverage -- The multiple faces of poverty and its future -- Poverty in a broader context -- The future of global poverty and human development -- Appendix 1: Cross sectional and lognormal formulations for poverty -- Appendix 2: Using lognormal income distributions -- Appendix 3: Deep drivers of economic growth and distribution -- Appendix 4: Countries in UN regions and subregions -- Appendix 5: Points of leverage in international futures.