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Over the last two decades, academics (based largely in the west) and activists have invested
a great deal of energy in global poverty. This article asks: why should people not be poor …

Poverty consolidates the material divide between us and them, an ideational divide. In the
fast age of digital communication and connectivity, the end of poverty has become the truly …

“What happens to poor people is never divorced from the actions of the powerful… control of
lives is related to control of land, systems of production, and the formal political and legal …

Since its founding, the member states of the United Nations have again and again, often with
great flourish, declared their commitment to the elimination of global poverty. In its …

Explores how to define, measure, and keep track of poverty; the causes of poverty; and
counterstrategies. This work features detailed case studies that examine the situations in the …

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, global GDP per capita rose from
about $400 per person globally to about $1,200 per person in Western Europe by 1800 and …

NGOs and grassroots groups frequently allege that projects funded by international and
multilateral development banks either do not serve the purpose of reducing poverty or are …

The first Millennium Development Goal sought to 'eradicate extreme poverty and hunger',
and its first target was to halve extreme poverty in 25 years. Progress notwithstanding–the …

The Ethics of Global Poverty offers a thorough introduction to the ethical issues surrounding
global poverty. It addresses important questions such as: What is poverty and how is it …