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Review of Global Poverty Eradication Solutions

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One of the most important messages to emerge from this study is that the pace of poverty reduction in the world has been unacceptably slow, and perhaps done in half-hearted and inept measures. Simply stated, the efforts of the past have been luckless, lackluster, too little, too slow, and inept. Pervasive global poverty makes the search for effective actions all the more imperative and urgent. Changes required for poverty eradication include the following considerations:

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Agola, N.O., Awange, J.L. (2014). Review of Global Poverty Eradication Solutions. In: Globalized Poverty and Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39733-2_11

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