Author's revised version of a PhD thesis, submitted to the University of Sussex in 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-228) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Why is Africa poor?; Part I: Poverty, need and objectivity in social inquiry; 1 Poverty and development in Africa: Twentieth-century orthodoxies; 2 Critical perspectives: From global structure to local agency; 3 Objectivity, need and the dialectics of emancipation; 4 Marxism, imperialism and Africa; Part II: Explaining poverty: The massive presence of the past and the outside; 5 The presence of the past: Slavery, colonialism and primitive accumulation.
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Gruffydd Jones' approach brings a book of real relevance for inequality in the modern world and gives an important platform from which to move forwards in the fight against poverty.
Ebook Library
EBL292884
Explaining global poverty.
9780415392129
Poverty-- Africa.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Macroeconomics.