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We need 'a decentralised approach to tackling poverty'

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23 November 2010

Mark Littlewood speaks to BBC Radio 4 Today's programme

Following the publication of a report on rural poverty by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Mark Littlewood, IEA Director General, argues on BBC Radio 4's Today programme that poverty would best be tackled by adopting a decentralised approach.

Listen to the interview here [2] (segment starts are 0:52:30).

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[1] http://www.iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/in-the-media/images/Mark Littlewood_1.jpg
[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00w1y3d/Today_23_11_2010/