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What is Poverty? Good Question

That is the title of one of the International Poverty Centre's past One Pagers, now available in Spanish and Portuguese.

In this paper the author, Terry McKinley, discusses the differences between income poverty and human poverty and warns against trying to merge the two.

 In the New York Times Paul Krugman, writing about the US, asserts that Poverty is Poison.

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