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From poverty to power : how active citizens and effective states can change the world / Duncan Green, Mark Fried.
LIBRA JF799 .G74 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Duncan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political participation.
- Government, Resistance to.
- Poverty.
- Equality.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 470 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Rugby : Practical Action, 2012.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Introduction 1
- The unequal world 3
- Part 2 Power and Politics 15
- The political roots of development 17
- I have rights, therefore I am 21
- How change happens: A revolution for Bolivia's Chiquitano people 27
- I believe, therefore I am 29
- I read, therefore I am 34
- I surf, therefore I am 43
- We organise, therefore we are 48
- How change happens: Winning women's rights in Morocco 55
- I own, therefore I am 57
- I vote, therefore I am 64
- I steal, therefore I am: Natural resources, corruption, and development 69
- I rule, therefore I am 73
- From poverty to power 84
- Part 3 Poverty and Wealth 85
- An economics for the twenty-first century 87
- Living off the land 98
- How change happens: The fishing communities of Tikamgarh 120
- The changing world of work 122
- Private sector, public interest 138
- Going for growth 148
- How change happens: Two African success stories (Botswana and Mauritius) 159
- Sustainable markets 161
- Part 4 Human Security 163
- Living with risk 165
- Social protection 173
- How change happens: India's campaign for a National Rural Employment Guarantee 180
- Finance and vulnerability 182
- Hunger and famine 186
- HIV, AIDS, and other health risks 191
- How change happens: South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign 200
- The risk of natural disaster 202
- Climate change: Mitigation, adaptation, organisation 212
- Living on the edge: Africa's pastoralists 221
- Violence and conflict 225
- Shocks and change 236
- Part 5 The International System 239
- Who rules the world? 241
- The international financial system 244
- The international trading system 260
- The international aid system 289
- How change happens: The 2005 Gleneagles Agreements 311
- International rules and norms 313
- The international system for humanitarian relief and peace 317
- How change happens: Landmines, an arms control success story 333
- Climate change 335
- Global governance in the twenty-first century 351
- Part 6 The Food and Financial Crises of 2008-11 353
- The food and financial crises of 2008-11 355
- The global financial crisis 356
- Living on a spike: The food price crises of 2008 and 2011 362
- Part 7 Conclusion 367
- A new deal for a new century 369.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: Oxford: Oxfam GB, 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781853397400
- 1853397407
- 9781853397417
- 1853397415
- OCLC:
- 798411576
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