The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty

by Jeremy Seabrook

At the turn of the new millennium, the United Nations determined that world poverty would be halved by 2015. International agencies are all committed to "poverty abatement." The International Monetary... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904456669
• ISBN13: 9781904456667
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: New Internationalist
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.5" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Sobering

I don't know how objective the writing is, but the general picture of world poverty produced by this book makes it painfully important. Generation after generation the world's poor receive a lot of lip service but little if any substantive assistance. If anything, they are subjected to extremely repressive economic measures inflicted as a result of globalization, trade deals like NAFTA... Read this and Gore Vidal's "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace". Makes you proud of America (not).