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Putting a face on poverty

Geoff Riley

26th December 2014

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Marcelo Giugale, an economist at the World Bank Global Practice on Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management illustrates how macroeconomists can influence policy to improve the lives of the poor - the key is to identify who the poor are - about how we fight poverty in the trenches. Technology is reducing the cost of finding out who the poor are.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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