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Book SynopsisMuch 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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
