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Absolute Poverty

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Eskelinen, T. (2011). Absolute Poverty. In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_178

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