Aspirations, Poverty and Economic Change
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Some of the material here was originally presented at the World Bank Conference on Culture and Development, June 2002, as comments on Arjun Appadurai's paper (Appadurai (2002)). I am indebted to this paper for provoking some of the observations made here. I thank Dilip Mookherjee, Jonathan Morduch, Rohini Pande, and especially Srirupa Roy and Nilita Vachani for useful comments. I gratefully acknowledge funding from the Pew Charitable Trust.
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