Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty

by Ali A. Allawi

A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment

Over the past two decades, experiments in neoliberal economics have opened up a chasm of inequality between the Global South and the West. Development advice from richer nations has led to social upheaval, political unrest, environmental degradation--and even the creation of a new underclass. Brutal extremes of wealth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300214286
• ISBN13: 9780300214284
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"