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Douglas Besharov and Kenneth Couch (eds.) (2012), Counting the Poor: New Thinking about European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States.New York: Oxford University Press and School of Public Policy, University of Maryland. £45, pp. 434, hbk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2013

JULIO BOLTVINIK
JULIO BOLTVINIK*
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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 852 - 855
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