Global Poverty

Rethinking Causality
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51459-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 225, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 729 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Much ink has been spilled on poverty measurements and trends, at the expense of revealing causality. Assembling multi-disciplinary and international contributions, this book shows that a causal understanding of poverty in rich and poor countries is essential. That understanding must be based on a critical interrogation of the wider social relations which set up the mechanisms producing poverty as an outcome. Processes that widen/strengthen crisis-ridden market relations, that increase income/wealth inequality, and that ‘enhance’ the policy-biases of nation-states and international institutions toward the affluent-propertied strata cause global poverty and undermine poor people’s political power. The processes concentrating wealth-creation are poverty-causing processes. Through theoretical and empirical analyses this volume offers important insights and political prescriptions to address global poverty.

Contributors are:Raju J. Das, Deepak K. Mishra, Steven Pressman, Michael Roberts, Jamie Gough, Aram Eisenschitz, Anjan Chakravarty, Mizhar Mikati, Marcelo Milan, Tarique Niazi, John Marangos, Eirini Triarchi, Themis Anthrakidis, Macayla Kisten and Brij Maharaj, David Michael M. San Juan, and Thaddeus Hwong.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Das, Raju J.

Mishra, Deepak K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Analysing Poverty Causally: An Introduction

Raju J. Das and Deepak K. Mishra

Absolute, Relative and Multidimensional Measures of Poverty

Steven Pressman

Poverty: A Marxist View

Michael Roberts


Why Is There Poverty In the Rich Countries? A Marxist Analysis

Jamie Gough And Aram Eisenschitz

Class and Social Needs: A Marxian Theory of Poverty

Anjan Chakravarty

Needs, Capital Accumulation, and Poverty: The Case of Food

Mizhar Mikati

The Rise and Fall of Inequality and Poverty Reduction In Brazil

Marcelo Milan

Neoliberalism, Financial Imperialism, and Capitalist Growth: Why Pakistan Still Wallows In Poverty

Tarique Niazi

The Impoverishment of a Nation: The Greek Financial Crisis and Troika’s Free Market-Austerity Policies

John Marangos, Eirini Triarchi and Themis Anthrakidis

Betraying the Struggle – Corruption and Poverty In Post-Apartheid South Africa

Macayla Kisten And Brij Maharaj

Poverty, Living Wage and Income Inequality In the Developing World: Views and Visions From The Philippines

David Michael M. San Juan

Tackling Poverty or Inequality? You Don’t Have to Choose

Thaddeus Hwong

The Political Economy of Poverty and Uneven Development: The Case of Odisha, India

Deepak K Mishra

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Raju J. Das, Ph.D. (1996), The Ohio State University, is a Professor at York University, Toronto. He has published articles in academic journals on political economy and international development. His recent books include Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World.


Deepak K. Mishra is Professor at Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His work focuses on the political economy of agrarian change, rural development, and labour migration in India.