Author's revised version of a PhD thesis, submitted to the University of Sussex in 2001.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-228) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Ebook Library
Stock Number
EBL292884
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Title
Explaining global poverty.
International Standard Book Number
9780415392129
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Poverty-- Africa.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Macroeconomics.