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Author
Publisher
Windmill Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sixty percent of humanity, some 4.3 billion people, live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right, combined with aid from rich countries. But anthropologist Jason Hickel argues that this approach misses the broader political forces at play. Global poverty and the growing divide between "developing" and "developed" countries has...
Author
Publisher
SelectBooks
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"A successful American entrepreneur offers solutions to the loss of American jobs and manufacturing. To help consumers understand buying choices, he advocates a movement to pass laws to label imports with the percentages of a product's costs of manufacture in the countries of origin and data showing whether trade ratios are balanced and beneficial to the United States"--Provided by publisher.