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Sefyliad Materion Cymreig
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Community Approaches to Poverty in Wales
John Osmond and Jessica Mugaseth

This essay is the IWA contribution to the book Overcoming Disadvantage: An agenda for the next 20 years published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in January 2004. It argues that if we are to have any chance of tackling poverty in Wales over the coming decade we will have to get to grips with the intractable concentration of localised difficulties in the southern Valleys.

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John Osmond is Director of the Institute of Welsh Affairs. Jessica Mugaseth is Research Officer of the Institute of Welsh Affairs.

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