- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Verso Books (27 Feb 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1859845665
- ISBN-13: 978-1859845660
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.3 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,115,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'The No-Nonsense Guides are the most accessible and enjoyable means for people with hurried lives to find out how the world really works"-George Monbiot, environmental campaigner and author of Captive State; 'The No-Nonsense Guides target those topics that a large army of voters cares about, but that politicos evade."-The Independent; 'A splendid new series of pocketable guides to issue politics... rigorously clear.'-The Guardian"
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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 Fund and the World Bank have renamed their structural adjustment policies "poverty reduction strategies". But can this work? No, argues Jeremy Seabrook, not if we fail to understand the meaning of poverty. Drawing on testimonies from around the world, as well as on the hard facts, he challenges the assumption that wealth overcomes poverty, and demonstrates that the opposite of "poor" is not "rich" but "self-reliant". Appealing passionately for a shared sense of "sufficiency", he gives verbal snapshots of people's lives to show how poverty shifts, changes and endures in response to the growth of wealth.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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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.
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.
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2 July 2008
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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).
Read this and Gore Vidal's "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace". Makes you proud of America (not).
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