The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty

The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty
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Publisher : Verso
Total Pages : 142
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ISBN-10 : 1859845665
ISBN-13 : 9781859845660
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Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty written by Jeremy Seabrook and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the new millennium, the United Nations determined that world poverty would be halved by 2015. International agencies are all committed to "poverty abatement." The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have renamed their structural adjustment policies "poverty reduction strategies." But can this work? No, argues Jeremy Seabrook, not if we fail to understand the meaning of poverty. Drawing on testimonies from around the world, as well as on the hard facts, he challenges the assumption that wealth overcomes poverty, and demonstrates that the opposite of "poor" is not "rich" but "self-reliant." Appealing passionately for a shared sense of "sufficiency," he gives verbal snapshots of people's lives to show how poverty shifts, changes and endures in response to the growth of wealth.


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