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New ways of looking at poverty
May 2016
Roger Senserrich,
Director of Communications at Connecticut Voices for Children;
Director of Communications at Connecticut Voices for Children;
What do people living in poverty experience and what policies could help them? These two books aim to answer these two questions from opposing perspectives. Economics of Poverty adopts a theoretical and global focus, while Scarcity approaches the subject empirically and looks at specific cases.