The State of World Rural Poverty: An Inquiry Into Its Causes and Consequences

by Idriss Jazairy, John Stanier, Theresa Panuccio, et al.

Book Overview

Poverty is spreading. There are now as many people living in absolute poverty - almost a billion in the rural Third World alone - as lived on the entire planet only a century ago. Yet poverty continues to be shrouded in mystery.
Consider that: Four-fifths of the world's poor live in rural areas; About 340 million people worldwide are currently chronically ill from malnutrition; Over 500 million do not get enough calories to do a full day's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814737544
• ISBN13: 9780814737545
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.0" x 10.0"