Poverty and progress [[electronic resource] ] : realities and myths about global poverty / / Deepak Lal
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| Autore: |
Lal Deepak
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| Titolo: |
Poverty and progress [[electronic resource] ] : realities and myths about global poverty / / Deepak Lal
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : Cato Institute, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.91 |
| Soggetto topico: | Poverty |
| Economic development | |
| Development economics | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 pover |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Poverty and progress |
| ISBN: | 1-938048-85-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786861603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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