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Sustainable Societies Africa


Poverty
Poverty

Understanding poverty (low standard of living) and how it can be overcome requires looking beyond income measures of poverty to see the sources of poverty in lack of access to resources and opportunities. One way to understand poverty, proposed by Amaryta Sen, is to view poverty as a lack of capabilities.



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