Making poverty
Subtitle: a history
By: Thomas Lines.
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781842779422; 9781842779415
Subjects: Poverty -- Developing countries; Rural poor -- Developing countries; Rural development; Economic policy
Description: Thomas Lines examines the role that global polices have played in creating the crisis of rural poverty. He explains the mechanisms of the markets and supply chains, charting their impact on agricultural trade in the world's poorest countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Those who have fallen behind; title: How poverty is made; title: Do the market's job for it; title: Not farming but gambling; title: Getting out of the trap; title: Can we put history behind us?