World poverty [electronic resource] : a reference handbook / Geoffrey Gilbert.
Material type: TextSeries: Contemporary world issuesPublication details: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2004.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 299 p.)ISBN:- 1851095578 (electronic bk.)
- 9781851095575 (electronic bk.)
- 128071395X
- 9781280713958
- 339.4/6/091724 22
- HC59.72.P6 G53 2004eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction and overview -- Aid, trade, debt, and the world's poor: some key controversies -- Special U.S. issues -- Chronology -- Biographical sketches -- Data and documents -- Directory of organizations -- Selected print and nonprint resources.
Part of a series designed to serve as introductory research resources for important world issues, this text by Gilbert (economics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges) takes on the issue of global poverty and the organizations and programs attempting to deal with it. He provides a basic overview of issues, institutions, and terminology; explores the.
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