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What is Poverty?
Natasha D’cruze, Joshua Merfeld, Jonathan Morduch
Poverty is seldom experienced as a steady condition: times get better, and times get worse, even within a given year. By taking a high-frequency view of people’s lives, the project connects poverty to financial capabilities and, ultimately, asks what poverty means.
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