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dc.contributor.advisorJ. D. Y. Peelen_US
dc.contributor.authorJohn, Iliffe-
dc.contributor.editorJ. M. Lonsdaleen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-07T13:20:35Z-
dc.date.available2018-11-07T13:20:35Z-
dc.date.issued1987-
dc.identifier.isbn0 521 34877 3-
dc.identifier.urihttp://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/18945-
dc.descriptionThere are three reasons for writing a book on this subject. One is that poverty is growing today in sub-Saharan Africa, terribly in the form of mass famine and insidiously in the declining living standards of remote villages and urban shanty towns. Contemporary poverty has become an important subject of research, notably in Nigeria,1 in the numerous country studies sponsored by the International Labour Office and the World Bank,2 and in the massive Carnegie Inquiry into poverty and development in southern Africa.3 The hope that research and practical thought about poverty may benefit from a historical perspective is one reason for this first attempt to provide oneen_US
dc.languageenen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridgeen_US
dc.subjectPoor - Africa - Historyen_US
dc.titleThe African Pooren_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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