Poverty Traps ?
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Despite the considerable amount of research devoted to economic growth and development, economists have not yet discovered how to make poor countries rich. As a result, poverty remains the common experience of billions. One half of the world’s people live on less than $2 per day. One fifth live on less than $1. 1 If modern production technologies are essentially free for the taking, then why is it that so many people are still poor?
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تاریخ انتشار 2004