Poverty Traps: Exploring the Complexity of Causation
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چکیده
Describing and explaining are two very different engagements, and yet development experts routinely write as though to describe were to explain. If this were not the case, it would be hard to understand why they have found it necessary to repeatedly describe the lives of the world’s poorest over the past 30 years. Consider the following sentence constructed from numerous writings—for example, by Banerjee and Duflo, Narayan, the United Nations Development Programme, and the World Bank (see the section headed “For Further Reading” for details)—wherein poverty is defined as a state of affairs in which someone has access to very little income:
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