World Poverty
Subtitle: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: September 14, 2004
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif. USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781851095520
Subjects: Poverty; Sociology - General; Prevention; Social Science; Sociology; General; Current Events / General; Developing countries
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview. Concepts of income poverty -- Measuring income poverty -- The map of world poverty -- Other poverty indicators -- World hunger -- Poverty and health -- Poverty and education -- Where does poverty come from? -- Poverty in neoclassical perspective -- The Washington consensus -- International borrowing -- Aid with strings attached -- Millennium development goals -- Room for hope -- References and further reading -- Aid, trade, debt, and the world's poor : some key controversies. The effectiveness of aid -- Statistics don't lie (do they?) -- Some aid realities -- A new aid challenge : aging -- Poverty and trade -- The damage from agricultural subsidies -- Defending agricultural subsidies -- Trade restrictions on poor countries -- The debt issue -- Odious debt -- Objections to "odious debt" -- The HIPC Initiatives, 1996 and 1999 -- Problems with HIPC -- Is debt relief useless? -- References and further reading -- Special U.S. issues -- The right amount of foreign aid -- Does the public support foreign aid? -- Who gets U.S. foreign aid? -- The bigger picture -- Immigration -- Current sources of U.S. immigration -- Open border ethics, in brief -- Open border impacts -- Drug pricing for poor nations -- Obstacles to making drugs available -- A WTO breakthrough -- Poverty and terrorism -- Weak evidence -- Fight poverty anyway -- References and further reading -- Chronology. References and further reading -- Biographical sketches. Carol Bellamy (1942-) -- Catherine Bertini (1950-) -- Nancy Birdsall (1946-) -- Bono (1960-) -- Gro Harlem Brundtland (1939-) -- Pieter Dijkhuizen (1941-) -- Bill Gates (1955-) -- Bob Geldof (1951-) -- James P. Grant (1922-1995) -- Fatima Jibrell (1948-) -- Bernard Kouchner (1939-) -- Frances Moore Lappe (1944-) -- Santiago Levy (1956-) -- George McGovern (1922-) -- Robert S. McNamara (1916-) -- James T. Morris (1943-) -- Andrew S. Natsios (1949-) -- Winston Hugh Njongonkulu Ndungane (1941-) -- Kavita N. Ramdas (1963-) -- Jeffrey Sachs (1954-) -- Dita Sari (1972-) -- Amartya K. Sen (1933-) -- Alfred Sommer (1942-) -- Joseph E. Stiglitz (1943-) -- Paul E. Tierney, Jr. (1943-) -- James D. Wolfensohn (1933-) -- Muhammad Yunus (1940-) -- Data and documents. Statistics on global poverty -- Documents. Millennium Development Goals (2000) -- Millennium Challenge Account: Frequently Asked Questions -- Fight Terrorism and Poverty -- HIV--AIDS and Poverty -- Rome Declaration on World Food Security (1996) -- Undernourishment around the World -- Links Between Gender Equality And Poverty Reduction -- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992) -- Debt Relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative: A Factsheet September 2003 -- The Monterrey Consensus (2002): Selected Passages -- Directory of organizations. Official agencies -- Microcredit organizations -- Faith-based relief and development -- Nonreligious relief and development -- Advocacy and research -- Selected print and nonprint resources. Monographs -- UN and World Bank publications -- Other agency -- NGO reports -- Journals -- Websites -- Videos -- Glossary.