The Crisis of Poverty and Debt in the Third World
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780754610274
Subjects: Development economics; International finance; Public finance; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Political Science; Debt relief; Debts, Public; Developing countries; Economic conditions; Poverty; Politics/International Relations
Description: "This book, the first to be published on Jubilee 2000, describes the plight of 52 of the poorest nations in the world and puts in detail the case for radical cancellation of past inert debt. The cost and benefit of this remission and the groundbreaking concordat of peoples and governments that could accompany it are examined in detail."--BOOK JACKET.