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Poverty and Income Inequality: Global Perspective

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The issue of poverty and poverty elimination has captured the attention of the international community in recent years. The present international resurgence of interest in poverty reduction in the world has probably been given impetus by the international pressure for poverty eradication. The World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen in March 1995 was one of the notable beginnings of well organized international effort.

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  1. Professor of International Economics, Doshisha University, Karasuma-dori, Kamidachiuri-agaru, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, 602-0898, Japan

    Nathaniel O. Agola

  2. Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia

    Joseph L. Awange

  3. Geodetic Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karksruhe, Germany

    Joseph L. Awange

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Agola, N.O., Awange, J.L. (2014). Poverty and Income Inequality: Global Perspective. In: Globalized Poverty and Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39733-2_10

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