Poverty :  a persistent global reality / 
edited by John Dixon and David Macarov. 
 - London ;  New York :  Routledge,  1998. 
 - xvi, 287 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> This volume comprises a conceptual chapter on the meaning and measurement of poverty and ten commissioned country chapters, each of which examines, in the light of the socio-economic and historical contexts within which povery exits, the extent and nature poverty its causes, and measure that have been taken to mitigate it.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>041514681X (hb.) 0415146828 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97035431  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poverty--Case studies.<br/>Poverty--Case studies.--Developing countries
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC79.P6  / P6816 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.5