02500nam 2200565Ia 450 991080865970332120200520144314.01-938048-85-7(CKB)2670000000370228(EBL)1354367(SSID)ssj0000872053(PQKBManifestationID)12308695(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000872053(PQKBWorkID)10842228(PQKB)10924210(MiAaPQ)EBC1354367(Au-PeEL)EBL1354367(CaPaEBR)ebr10694544(OCoLC)843078330(EXLCZ)99267000000037022820111102d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPoverty and progress realities and myths about global poverty /Deepak Lal1st ed.Washington, D.C. Cato Institute20131 online resource (236 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-938048-83-0 Includes bibliographical references.Part 1. Reality -- 1. The ascent from mass poverty -- 2. The global spread of well-being -- 3. Destitution, conjunctural poverty and income transfers -- 4. Political economy -- Part 2. Myths -- 5. The numbers game -- 6. Statistical snake oil -- 7. Theoretical curiosities -- 8. Micro everything -- 9. Saving Africa -- 10. Global warming.In his new book, Poverty and Progress: Realities and Myths about Global Poverty, renowned development economist Deepak Lal draws on 50 years of experience around the globe to describe developing-country realities and rectify misguided notions about economic progress. Unique among books that have emerged in recent years on world poverty, Poverty and Progress directly confronts intellectual fads of the West and dismantles a wide range of myths that have obscured an astounding achievement: the unprecedented spread of economic progress around the world that is eliminating the scourge of mass poverPovertyEconomic developmentDevelopment economicsPoverty.Economic development.Development economics.338.91Lal Deepak88848MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808659703321Poverty and progress3938192UNINA