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What We Know About Poverty and What We Must Do: Ethical and Political Aspects of Empowerment

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Aziz, S. (2007). What We Know About Poverty and What We Must Do: Ethical and Political Aspects of Empowerment. In: Pinstrup-Andersen, P., Sandøe, P. (eds) Ethics, Hunger and Globalization. The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6131-8_8

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