Overview

Most people alive in the world today are living in poverty. Over one and a half billion people live on the equivalent of less than one US dollar a day. As the gap between rich and poor continues to grow, more people than ever before live below the poverty line, and their numbers will increase. Development aid has helped in some cases, but in general it has failed to seriously reduce destitution, and its uses continue to provoke debate. This volume is a serious attempt to address what can be done to alleviate poverty on a worldwide scale. While politicians debate at length what their policy aims should be, practicalities of how these aims will be implemented, and what is really achievable or ""sustainable"", are left to NGOs, development workers and activists. The latest policy document produced by senior politicians and international organizations such as the World Bank and IMF is ""Guidelines on Poverty Reduction"". Unsurprisingly, its central assumption is that poverty is best alleviated through economic growth, by incorporating the poor into the globalized market. ""Negotiating Poverty"" is a critical examination of these new guidelines, which argues that attempts to incorporate the poor into a liberal market will only increase the poverty and suffering of the majority of the world. With contributions from a range of leading academics and activists from a range of countries in the North and South, who were invited to debate these guidelines along with the politicians, ""Negotiating Poverty"" offers a radical analysis of the real issues to be addressed. Chapters cover the aims and framework for poverty reduction; the role of the global market; the problems of employment; human security; environmental security; legal aspects; and the practical problems of implementation.

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Author:   Neil Middleton ,  Phil O’Keefe ,  Rob Visser
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.369kg
ISBN:  

9780745318226

ISBN 10:   0745318223
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   20 October 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

1. Introduction by Neil Middleton, Phil O’Keefe, Rob Visser 2. The Agenda by Ton Dietz 3. Thinking in the Active Voice by Brian Murphy 4. Poverty Concepts, Policies, Partnerships and Practice: a plea for simplicity by Michael Lipton 5. Pro-Poor Growth by Martin Greeley 6. Common Diagnostic Framework for Poverty Reduction by J. Dirck Stryker 7. Private Adjustments: Household Responses to the Erosion of Work by Mercedes González de la Rocha, Alejandro J. Grinspun 8. Comments on Human Security and the Poverty Reduction Guidelines by J. ‘Kayode Fayemi 9. Environmental Security, Livelihoods and Entitlements by John Kirkby, Moyo 10. Can Poverty Be Made a Crime Against Humanity? by Frank Barnaby 11. Other Voices by Neil Middleton, Phil O’Keefe 12. Reasonable Discussion by Neil Middleton, Phil O’Keefe, Rob Visser 13. Conclusions by Phil O’Keefe, Rob Visser

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Neil Middleton has written widely on development and aid and is a consultant with ETC-UK. He is the co-author, with Phil O'Keefe, of Redefining Sustainable Development and Disaster and Development: the Politics of Humanitarian Aid, both published by Pluto Press. Phil O'Keefe teaches Economic Development and Environmental Management at the University of Northumbria. He is also the Director of ETC-UK. Rob Visser is Deputy Director of the Department of Social Policy of the Ministry of Foreign affairs of the Netherlands. He also lectures on Environment & Security in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utrecht.

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