Session on Income Distribution, Growth and Poverty
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Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations, focus on the reduction of absolute poverty measured in terms of achieving some minimum level of income for each person in society. It is recognized, however, that poverty entails more than a lack of income, and the question of relative poverty – that is, inequalities of income within and between countries regardless of level of income – is as important as the question of absolute poverty. See United Nations, Report on the World Social Situation, 2005, for a discussion of the economic and non-economic aspects of poverty and inequality. Session on Income Distribution, Growth and Poverty
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