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Reducing poverty - the importance of aspirations

Geoff Riley

24th February 2016

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Living in poverty curtails a poor person’s capacity to aspire, according to research by Patricio Dalton, Sayantan Ghosal and Anandi Mani, published in the February 2016 issue of the Economic Journal.

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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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