Rich World, Poor World
The Struggle to Escape Poverty
$48.17
- Hardcover
688 pages
- Release Date
27 May 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.<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300214284 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0300214286 |
| Author: | Ali A. Allawi |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 1.03kg |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“This is a valuable and authoritative account of the varying theories of development since 1945 and of what worked and didn’t work. The focus is on economic development and much less on human development, but it is an important read for all working in development.”—Clare Short, former Secretary of State for International Development and author of An Honourable Deception?
“Covering diverse regions and told in the context of tumultuous geopolitics, Allawi’s account of the ‘age of development’ serves as a warning against peddlers of seductive development panaceas heedless of the complex histories of the societies that they seek to remold.”—Niall Kishtainy, author of A Little History of Economics
“A genuinely outstanding work. It ranges comprehensively with both amazing erudition and remarkable knowledge of both national histories and published sources, and consistently makes for gripping reading.”—William D. Rubinstein, author of Men of Property
Ali A. Allawi
Ali A. Allawi is a politician and scholar, formerly Iraq’s deputy prime minister and finance minister. His previous books include The Occupation of Iraq, Faisal I of Iraq, and The Crisis of Islamic Civilization.
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