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The Lie of Global Prosperity : How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation /
"This book deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Here is carefully researched documentation that global poverty-and the inequalities and mise...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: a new millennium?
- Part one. Global poverty today. Problems with the World Bank's poverty metric ; Other metrics and dimensions of global poverty ; Conclusion to Part one
- Part two. Going beyond statistics to the dynamics of imperialism. Causes and consequences of the neoliberal phase of imperialism ; Claim no easy victories, tell no lies.