Poverty and progress : realities and myths about global poverty / Deepak Lal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lal, Deepak.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty.

Economic development.

Development economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his new book, Poverty and Progress: Realities and Myths about Global Poverty, renowned development economist Deepak Lal draws on 50 years of experience around the globe to describe developing-country realities and rectify misguided notions about economic progress. Unique among books that have emerged in recent years on world poverty, Poverty and Progress directly confronts intellectual fads of the West and dismantles a wide range of myths that have obscured an astounding achievement: the unprecedented spread of economic progress around the world that is eliminating the scourge of mass pover

Contents:

Part 1. Reality

1. The ascent from mass poverty

2. The global spread of well-being

3. Destitution, conjunctural poverty and income transfers

4. Political economy

Part 2. Myths

5. The numbers game

6. Statistical snake oil

7. Theoretical curiosities

8. Micro everything

9. Saving Africa

10. Global warming.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781938048852

1938048857

OCLC:

843078330