Three Deltas: Acumulation and Poverty in Rural Burma, Bengal and South India

by Willem van Schendel and H Willem Schendel

Traditionally viewed as the result of scarcity, van Schendel asserts that poverty is the outcome of unequal relationships between groups of people. Rather than believing poverty is a temporary state that will gradually disappear if the economy grows and resources become more plentiful, Three Deltas explores poverty as an indispensable structural feature of the societies in which it occurs. Accordingly, a solution to mass poverty must start from a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803996810
• ISBN13: 9780803996816
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.