Global Poverty: How Global Governance is Failing the PoorAround 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a relatively low international profile until the end of the 20th century. In this important new work, Hulme charts the rise of global poverty as a priority global issue, and its subsequent marginalisation as old themes edged it aside (trade policy and peace-making in regions of geo-political importance) and new issues were added (terrorism, global climate change and access to natural resources). Providing a concise and detailed overview of both the history and the current debates that surround this key issue, the book:
The first book to tackle the issue of global poverty through the lens of global institutions; this volume provides an important resource for all students and scholars of international relations, development studies and international political economy. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 The history and geography of global poverty | 17 |
2 Understanding and explaining global poverty | 50 |
3 The institutional landscape for attacking global poverty | 81 |
all change or no change? | 113 |
5 Strategic choices for global poverty eradication | 147 |
emerging issues in an uncertain world | 172 |