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The poverty challenge: How individual decision-making behavior influences poverty

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  • Pennings, Joost M.E. & Garcia, Philip, 2005. "The poverty challenge: How individual decision-making behavior influences poverty," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 88(1), pages 115-119, July.
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