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The author would like to thank Julian Culp for very helpful comments on this article. The material on PPP draws on material in Hassoun (2011).
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Hassoun, N. (2011). Global Poverty. In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_193
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