Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-501) and index.
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The roots of poverty -- The cruel Sun : the curse of the tropics -- Winner takes all : pre-colonial societies and colonialism -- The westernization of the world -- Ill fares the land : agriculture and agrarian problems -- Eco-catastrophe in Africa -- Polarization in Asia -- Land or death in Latin America -- The shrinking Earth : ecological threats -- Hell is a city : urbanization and industry -- Exodus : the rural poor vote with their feet -- The promised land : skyscrapers and shanty towns -- Workless of the world : success and failure of big industry -- The curious economy -- The lost people : the underdevelopment of man -- Sins of the the fathers : how people underdevelop -- The sorcerer's apprentice : population -- Man is what he eats : malnutrition -- Death control : the diseases of poverty -- The alienation machine : the uneducated and the miseducated -- The poorest of the poor : women's lot -- The power context -- Unto every one that hath : the unfair world economy -- Something is rotten in the state : the politics of poverty -- Princes and paupers : poverty and inequality -- The limits to unequal growth.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Studies the political, social, and economic factors that lead to the poverty, malnutrition, and civil unrest found in Third World countries.