Impact of Rich Countries' Policies on Poor Countries: Towards a Level Playing Field in Development Cooperation

This volume addresses a curiously neglected area of policy analysis—the impact of rich countries’ policies on the global poor. Four-fifths of the world’s people subsist on one-fifth of the world’s income. One-fifth live in abject poverty, on less than one dollar a day. The main responsibility for reducing poverty reduction naturally rests with developing countries. But globalization means that rich countries must also play their part. Industrialized countries dominate global environmental management through the heavy ecological footprint of their production and consumption patterns.