Module 1: Understanding Rural Poverty Session 1: Overview of Poverty: the African Context
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1. The existence of numerous definitions of poverty is a clear indication that the concept of poverty is complex. In the African context, the state of economic development, the limited nature of poverty-related data and information and the complexity of the social and cultural set-ups and their ramification with safety nets and poverty make the understanding of poverty for planning and programming purposes a daunting challenge.
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