From poverty to power : how active citizens and effective states can change the world / Duncan Green ; foreword by Amartya Sen.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Green, Duncan
Language:English
Published: Bourton on Dunsmore, Rugby, Warwickshire, UK : Practical Action Publishing Ltd in association with Oxfam GB for Oxfam International, Oxford, UK, [2012]
Edition:Fully revised and updated 2nd edition.
Subjects:
Political participation.
Government, Resistance to.
Poverty.
Equality.
Physical Description:xvi, 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • List of figures, tables, and boxes
  • About the author
  • Foreword / Amartya Sen
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of acronyms
  • Part 1. Introduction
  • The unequal world
  • Part 2. Power and Politics
  • The political roots of development
  • I have rights, therefore I am
  • How change happens: A revolution for Bolivia's Chiquitano people
  • I believe, therefore I am
  • I read, therefore I am
  • I surf, therefore I am
  • We organise, therefore we are
  • How change happens: Winning women's rights in Morocco
  • I own, therefore I am
  • I vote, therefore I am
  • I steal, therefore I am: Natural resources, corruption, and development
  • I rule, therefore I am
  • From poverty to power
  • Part 3. Poverty and Wealth
  • An economics for the twenty-first century
  • Living off the land
  • How change happens: The fishing communities of Tikamgarh
  • The changing world of work
  • Private sector, public interest
  • Going for growth
  • How change happens: Two African success stories (Botswana and Mauritius)
  • Sustainable markets
  • Part 4. Human Security
  • Living with risk
  • Social protection
  • How change happens: India's campaign for a National Rural Employment Guarantee
  • Finance and vulnerability
  • Hunger and famine
  • HIV, AIDS, and other health risks
  • How change happens: South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign
  • The risk of natural disaster
  • Climate change: Mitigation, adaptation, organisation
  • Living on the edge: Africa's pastoralists
  • Violence and conflict
  • Shocks and change
  • Part 5. The International System
  • Who rules the world?
  • The international financial system
  • The international trading system
  • The international aid system
  • How change happens: The 2005 Gleneagles Agreements
  • International rules and norms
  • The international system for humanitarian relief and peace
  • How change happens: Landmines, an arms control success story
  • Climate change
  • Global governance in the twenty-first century
  • Part 6. The Food and Financial Crises of 2008-11
  • The food and financial crises of 2008-11
  • The global financial crisis
  • Living on a spike: The food price crises of 2008 and 2011
  • Part 7. Conclusion
  • A new deal for a new century
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Background papers and case studies
  • Glossary
  • Index.