Global Poverty: Deprivation, Distribution, and Development Since the Cold War

by Andy Sumner

Why are some people poor? Why does absolute poverty persist despite substantial economic growth? What types of late economic development or 'catch-up' capitalism are associated with different poverty outcomes? Global Poverty addresses these apparently simple questions and the extent to which
the answers may be shifting. One might expect global poverty to be focused in the world's poorest countries, usually defined as low-income countries, or least...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019870352X
• ISBN13: 9780198703525
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"