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Overcoming Human Poverty

UNDP Poverty Report 1998

Publisher: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Place of Publish: USA, New York

Year: 1998

Page Numbers: 94

Acc. No: 283

Class No: 338.9 UNI

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Development

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English

ISBN: 92-1-126105-8

Of all the scourges in the world that stunt human development, poverty is the most widespread. It denies individuals their most basic rights, and denies humanity the benefit of their talents. Poverty is also the cause of other dangers the mankind has to face, such as disease, overcrowding, crime, and conflict. This new UNDP report shows both the scale of the challenge and the measures being taken to address it, especially at the level of individual countries.