title: Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference (Check Info and Delete This Occurrence: C the Rodolfo De Benedetti Lecture Series)
author:  Alberto Alesina 
description: <br />"An important contribution to this enduring debate"--<em>Region Focus</em>
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  **MEASURING POVERTY AROUND THE WORLD**
  
   **MEASURING**  
   **POVERTY**  
   **AROUND**  
   **THE** **WORLD**
  
   **Anthony B. Atkinson**
  
   **Edited by John Micklewright and Andrea Brandolini**
  
   **With Afterwords**  
   **byFrançois Bourguignon and Nicholas Stern**
  
   **PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS**
  
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  Published by Princeton University Press
  
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  LCCN 2019936797
  
  ISBN 978-0-691-19122-5
  
  eISBN: 9780691191898
  
  Version 1.0
  
  British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available
  
  Editorial: Sarah Caro & Hannah Paul
  
  Production Editorial: Ali Parrington
  
  Text Design: Leslie Flis
  
  Jacket Design: Lorraine Doneker
  
  Jacket/Cover Credit: From “The Poverty Line,” a typology of photographs
  examining the daily food choices made by people ac