The no-nonsense guide to world poverty

Seabrook, Jeremy 1939- (Author).

Summary:

At the turn of the new millennium, the United Nations determined that world poverty would be halved by 2015. Drawing on sources from around the world, as well as on hard facts, the author challenges the assumption that wealth overcomes poverty, and demonstrates that the opposite of poor is not rich but self-reliant.

Contents:

Introduction
The invisible poor
Measuring poverty
Defining poverty
The mechanisms of impoverishment
Wealth and poverty
Rescuing self-reliance
Afterword.

Item details

ISBN: 1904456669
ISBN: 9781904456667
Physical Description: 142 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
print
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Oxford : New Internationalist, 2007.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Previous edition: London: Verso, 2003.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (page 139) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction The invisible poor Measuring poverty Defining poverty The mechanisms of impoverishment Wealth and poverty Rescuing self-reliance Afterword.