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The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty Jeremy Seabrook

The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty By Jeremy Seabrook

The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty by Jeremy Seabrook


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Summary

Questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty - is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author shows how we all need to live more modestly to make poverty history, and that poverty is everywhere, not just in poor countries.

The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty Summary

The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty by Jeremy Seabrook

This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty - is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose views are rarely sought and shows how we all need to live more modestly to make poverty history. The author reveals that poverty is everywhere, not just in poor countries. It's just that the West hides its poor better.

The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty Reviews

"Having a lifelong interest in human rights issues and having read many articles about poverty I was shocked to learn - when reading this book - that many of my basic concepts about poverty - my understanding of poverty were totally wrong. Jeremy argues that the consumerist culture that pervades the whole planet now - its "unlimited demand for limited resources", the desire to "have-what-I-want" rather than "live-on-what-I-need" attitude - these are the root causes of poverty. Organisations like the IMF and World Bank - these are helping to cause more poverty than alleviate it. The belief that the endless pursuit of money will "raise everyones level" simply is not true. This is an extremely important book for anyone who wishes to understand the real root causes of poverty. A must read." Amazon Customer Review (5 star)

About Jeremy Seabrook

Jeremy Seabrook has written more than 30 books (including Travels in the Skin Trade, and Children of Other Worlds), and has worked as a teacher, social worker, journalist, lecturer and playwright. He has contributed to many magazines, including the New Statesman and the Ecologist.

Table of Contents

1) Introduction2) The invisible poor3) Measuring poverty4) Defining poverty5) The mechanisms of impoverishment6) Wealth and poverty7) Rescuing self-reliance8) Appendix 1 - Migrations9) Appendix 2 - What they said about povertyContacts. Bibliography. Index.

Additional information

GOR002684186
9781904456667
1904456669
The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty by Jeremy Seabrook
Used - Very Good
Paperback
New Internationalist Publications Ltd
2007-09-13
144
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