THE CREATION OF WORLD POVERTY TERESA HAYTER Pluto Press in association with Third World First Second edition 1990 PART III Chapter 2: Extremes of Poverty and Wealth There is no lack of information on the extreme forms of deprivation which the majority of people in this world now suffer. Most but not all of …
THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 PART 1 Preface When I graduated I wanted to put my knowledge of economics to use in Africa. Africa’s new countries were ill-equipped, and scarcely any Africans had received the sort of education …
Background In his book The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Life Time, Jeffey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and director of the UN Millennium Project, tells us that ‘Western governments enforced draconian budget policies in Africa during the1980s and 1990s. The IMF and World Bank …
Background In his book The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Life Time, Jeffey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and director of the UN Millennium Project, tells us that ‘For the first time in history, our generation has the opportunity to end extreme poverty in the …
GREEK SUMMER 2011 MISSION. SERVICE. LEADERSHIP. PART I Introduction I was engaged by Bruce Lansdale in 1978 to be his Associate Director for Administration and worked with him till he retired in 1990. Christine and I were married in 1988 and becoming a family member gave me additional insights into a man who has …
MANIFESTOS ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD AND SEED EDITED BY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2007 PART X PART THREE SEEDS FOR THE FUTURE: BREEDING TOMORROW’S SEEDS Seeds embody the past and the future. The evolution of seeds in the future depends on our conserving the widest diversity of seeds and crop varieties to …
THE END OF POVERTY HOW WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OUR LIFE TIME JEFFREY SACHS PENGUIN BOOKS 2005 PART XII Chapter 14: A Global Compact to End Poverty Ending global poverty by 2025 will require concerted actions by the rich countries as well as the poor, beginning with a “global compact” between the …
Book Review MANIFESTOS ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD AND SEED EDITED BY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2007 PART IX THE MANIFESTOS PART TWO A NEW PARADIGM FOR SEED A post-industrial concept of seed and food production must take into account the failures, limitations, and vulnerability of industrial agriculture and corporate monopolies. It must be …
THE END OF POVERTY HOW WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OUR LIFE TIME JEFFREY SACHS PENGUIN BOOKS 2005 PART XI Chapter 13: Making the Investments Needed to End Poverty At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot …
THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART VI PART 3: SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES Perspective 15: Social Capital and Collective Management of Resources by Jules Pretty Introduction The proposition that natural resources need protection from the destructive actions of people is widely accepted. Yet communities have shown in the past …
