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  • Destitution in the province of Kandahar has made poppy one of the top three cultivated crops in Afghanistan despite attempts at eradication and "alternative development".

    Drugs and development – caught in a vicious cycle | Nick Crofts 2011

  • Fromthose two largebobby pins haphazardly stuck to each side of her veiled head ... to the track shoes on her feet (over the thick socks and nylons), one could surmise that she was in a hurry to catch up with one ever-menacing foe: Destitution.

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Fromthose two largebobby pins haphazardly stuck to each side of her veiled head ... to the track shoes on her feet (over the thick socks and nylons), one could surmise that she was in a hurry to catch up with one ever-menacing foe: Destitution.

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Fromthose two largebobby pins haphazardly stuck to each side of her veiled head ... to the track shoes on her feet (over the thick socks and nylons), one could surmise that she was in a hurry to catch up with one ever-menacing foe: Destitution.

    yalla - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • “Bronson was experiencing mental states and visions that suggest a frighteningly disturbed mind,”3 writes biographer John Matteson in his chapter about these years, titled “Destitution.”

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • In other words, we are often brought to think along the lines of some of the great dissenters in the economics tradition -- Polanyi, Dobb, Marx, Sen, McCloskey, and Dasgupta An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution, for example.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • In other words, we are often brought to think along the lines of some of the great dissenters in the economics tradition -- Polanyi, Dobb, Marx, Sen, McCloskey, and Dasgupta An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution, for example.

    Alternative economists Daniel Little 2009

  • (I'm thinking of scholars such as Partha Dasgupta (An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution) or Amartya Sen (Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation) as exemplars of the latter perspective; here is Sen's biographical essay on the occasion of his receipt of the Nobel Prize.)

    Archive 2009-04-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • (I'm thinking of scholars such as Partha Dasgupta (An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution) or Amartya Sen (Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation) as exemplars of the latter perspective; here is Sen's biographical essay on the occasion of his receipt of the Nobel Prize.)

    French sociology as a distinctive tradition Daniel Little 2009

  • Destitution, despair, and divided counsels prevailed.

    Lurching Toward Gomorrah: More Signs of An Unstoppable Economic Meltdown 2008

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