Poverty And The Critical Security Agenda
Series: Critical Security Series
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: May 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780754643739
Subjects: Poverty; Political Science; International relations; Business / Economics / Finance; Social justice; Politics/International Relations; Security, International; Economics - Macroeconomics; International Relations - General; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Philippines
First sentence: The sheer scale of global impoverishment, the World Bank (WB) cites a figure of 2.8 billion people living on less than $2 per day (2001, p. 3) out of a global population of six billion, indicates that the need to address the problem of poverty is acute.