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close this book Including the poor
close this folder Part II. Events affecting the poor
close this folder 10. Poverty, policy, and industrialization in the past
View the document 10.1 Inequality during past industrial revolutions
View the document 10.2 What about poverty?
View the document 10.3 Poverty and policy
View the document 10.4 Safety nets
View the document 10.5 Note

10.5 Note

This revised background paper for World Development Report /990 was delivered at the Poverty Research Conference organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute and the World Bank at Airlie House in Virginia, October 25-28, 1989. we acknowledge with gratitude the help given by George Boyer, Gary Fields, Joan Hannon, Michael Lipton, Mary MacKinnon, Cynthia Taft Morris, Lyn Squire, Jacques van der Gaag, and participants at Airlie.