The Poor and the Plutocrats
From the poorest of the poor to the richest of the rich
$136.16
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
6 April 2021
Summary
A decisive examination of inequality and its relationship to poverty and wealth, The Poor and the Plutocrats explores how we live in a world of very many poor people and a very few extremely rich ones – the poor and the plutocrats of the title. Globally, the last twenty years have seen declines in inequality between countries and the fastest fall in the numbers of absolutely poor in history – those living on less than the World Bank extreme poverty line of US$1.90 per day. In paralle…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198870142 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198870140 |
| Author: | Francis Teal |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 6 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 140mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Francis Teal
Francis Teal has worked on labour market questions for both rich and poor countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. This background informs his approach to understanding the sources of inequality, a global and pressing concern.
He was a Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) at the University of Oxford from 1996 until his retirement in 2012. He is now a managing editor of Oxford Economic Papers and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of African Economies.
Before joining the Centre in 1991, Francis Teal held positions in Tanzania at the Tanzania Investment Bank, in the UK at the National Institute of Economics and Social Research and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and in Australia at the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Australian National University.
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