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How do people living in poverty perceive their lives?

In order to gain a deeper, locally specific understanding of poverty, SDC has over the years commissioned a number of investigations in different countries, asking local people to give their own perceptions of what it is like to be poor. These studies were undertaken specifically to inform and strengthen the poverty focus of SDC's activities in each of the countries concerned; their purpose was not to contribute to cross-country comparisons. Nevertheless it is striking how local perceptions are at once both "the same but different"… Read more >>>