Why do poverty and hunger persist?

Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics and Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge University, UK

"Poverty can be a cause of inequality. We very often think of inequlity as being a cause of poverty, but here a reasonable response...to absolute poverty can be the creation of inequality leading to a biforcation which forces...one group of people into one channel (of wellbeing) and another (group) into another (channel)..."

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