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Yes, you can access Understanding Changes in Poverty by Gabriela Inchauste,João Pedro Azevedo,B. Essama-Nssah,Sergio Olivieri,Trang Van Nguyen,Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi,Hernan Winkler in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Development Economics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

World Bank Publications

Year

2014

eBook ISBN

9781464803000

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Development Economics

Index

Social Sciences

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Opportunity Knocks: Deepening Our Understanding of Poverty Reduction
Chapter 2 A Simple Approach to Understanding Changes in Poverty and Inequality
Chapter 3 What Accounts for Changes in Poverty over the Past Decade?
Chapter 4 Counterfactual Decomposition of Changes in Poverty Outcomes
Chapter 5 Why Has Labor Income Increased? An In-Depth Approach to Understanding Poverty Reduction
Chapter 6 Understanding Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh, Peru, and Thailand
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