Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality

by Rorden Wilkinson and Jennifer Clapp

Book Overview

A series of crises unfolded in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st Century which combined to exacerbate already profound conditions of global economic inequality and poverty in the world's poorest countries. In 2007, the unsound lending practices that caused a collapse in the US housing market ushered in a broader economic crisis that reverberated throughout the global financial system. This economic shockwave had a global impact, triggering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415780497
• ISBN13: 9780415780490
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"