Explaining Global Poverty: A Critical Realist Approach

, by Gruffydd Jones,Branwen

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ISBN: 9780415392129 | 0415392128
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/4/2006

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"This book explores how social inquiry informed by critical realism can provide a better explanation of global poverty than existing dominant approaches."--BOOK JACKET.

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List of tables	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
List of abbreviations	p. xiv
Introduction: why is Africa poor?	p. 1
Poverty, need and objectivity in social inquiry	p. 11
Poverty and development in Africa: twentieth-century orthodoxies	p. 13
Critical perspectives: from global structure to local agency	p. 31
Objectivity, need and the dialectics of emancipation	p. 48
Marxism, imperialism and Africa	p. 65
Explaining poverty: the massive presence of the past and the outside	p. 89
The presence of the past: slavery, colonialism and primitive accumulation	p. 91
The presence of the outside: revolution, counter-revolution and the production of absence	p. 121
Neo-colonialism and the reproduction of poverty: contemporary dialectics of accumulation and dispossession	p. 149
Conclusion	p. 177
Notes	p. 182
Bibliography	p. 198
Index	p. 229
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Explaining Global Poverty: A Critical Realist Approach

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