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OCTOBER 13, 2020
How many people are living in poverty in the world? Finding the answer to this simple question poses a wealth of difficulty. Determining who lives in poverty is a difficult task, and the various means used to count these people can give quite different values. Economists Zhou Xun and Michel Lubrano seek to illustrate this issue in their article, in which they propose a new method for assessing poverty in developing countries.
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https://www.dialogueseconomiques.fr/en/article/world-poverty-numbers-do-not-add

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