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Part I - Conceptualizing and Measuring Human Rights and Economic Inequalities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2021

Gillian MacNaughton
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University of Massachusetts, Boston
Diane Frey
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San Francisco State University
Catherine Porter
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Lancaster University
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