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From Poverty to Power |
How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World:
* Survey of current trends in poverty, inequality, and vulnerability
* Using case studies and examples, suggests a new framework for analyzing how change happens
* Outlines the key challenges and policy choices in development and humanitarian relief
* Foreword by Amartya Sen
The fight against poverty, inequality, and the threat of environmental collapse will define the 21st century, as the fight against slavery or for universal suffrage defined earlier eras. Unprecedented levels of prosperity co-exist with mass poverty and extreme inequalities. More than a billion people live in extreme poverty and another billion people live with the everyday threat of falling into it. The world, and the nature of poverty are changing. To respond to these challenges, change-makers are also having to adapt.
From Poverty to Power takes a fresh look at development through the lenses of rights, politics, and power and explores the impact of issues such as climate change, global integration, and the spread of electoral democracy.
This powerful book argues that most positive change, including development, is locally and nationally driven. Drawing on local, national, and global examples, it argues that what is needed is nothing less than a global new deal—a redistribution of power, voice, opportunities, and assets to achieve a dynamic and inclusive society. Oxfam’s experience in more than 60 years of working with the poorest communities in the world leads to a conclusion that such redistribution can best be achieved by a combination of active citizens and effective states.
"From Poverty to Power is about the choices that need to be made by governments, international institutions, non-government organizations, and poor people themselves to bring about change for a just and sustainable future." says lead author Duncan Green.
Duncan Green has been Head of Research at Oxfam Great Britain since 2004. He is the author of several books on Latin America, including Faces of Latin America (third edition 2006) and Silent Revolution: The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America (2003). He has been a Senior Policy Advisor on trade and development at the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) and Policy Analyst on trade and globalization at CAFOD.
Contents:
Foreword; 1) Poverty, Inequality, and How Change Happens; 2) Power and Politics; 3) Power and Prosperity: Markets and Livelihoods; 4) Risk, Vulnerability, and Human Security; 5) The International System: Aid, Humanitarian System, the Role of nternational Institutions and INGOs; 6) Conclusion; Bibliography; References; Index.
320 pp., 6 1/8" x 9 1/4", June 2008
Published by Oxfam Publishing
Duncan Green
Edited by Mark Fried
Foreword by Amartya Sen
Mark Fried coordinates advocacy for Oxfam Canada and writes regularly on policy issues related to international development.
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