Rich world, poor world : the struggle to escape poverty / Ali A. Allawi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allawi, Ali A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Economic development--History.

Economic development.

Economic development--Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 675 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Yale Univ. P., 2024.

Summary:

A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment. Over the past two decades, experiments in neoliberal economics have opened up a chasm of inequality between the Global South and the West. Development advice from richer nations has led to social upheaval, political unrest, environmental degradation - and even the creation of a new underclass. Brutal extremes of wealth and poverty are now commonplace. Ali A. Allawi traces the evolution of the world economic order from the late imperial era to the present day. Shedding light on continuing controversies, Allawi shows how the process of development has been hindered at every turn, from poor leadership and lost opportunities to widespread corruption. In doing so, he argues that the current neoliberal consensus is only the most recent of a series of failed policy imperatives. Covering issues in the Global South as well as failures in the West, this definitive account offers an impassioned and authoritative call for change.

Contents:

Introduction

1 Emerging from War

2 The Road to Bretton Woods

3 Crumbling Empires

4 From Reconstruction to Development

5 India and the Allure of Planning

6 Latin America and Import Substitution

7 Cold War Fault Lines

8 To Develop, Modernise!

9 The Population Bomb, Famine and the Green Revolution

10 Resource Limits, Resource Booms, Resource Crises

11 Radicals, Revolutionaries and Utopians

12 Enter the Free Market

13 Turmoil, Transition and Flux

14 The Faltering Continent

15 Lurching towards Disaster

16 The Soaring Flying Geese

17 The Giant Awakens

18 Globalisation Ascendant

19 The Short Decade

20 Fragmentation and Intractability

21 The Authoritarian Option

22 The Chasm

Annexe: UN Millennium Development Goals (2000)

Notes

Index.

Other Format:

Print version: Allawi, Ali A., 1947- Rich world, poor world.

ISBN:

9780300277111 (e-book)

9780300214284 (hbk.)

0-300-27711-3

9780300277111