Overview
Develops a global perspective on the interaction of growth, poverty and inequality in order to bring greater clarity to the understanding of global poverty
Argues counter-intuitively that it is not a lack of growth that is the cause of the persistence of global poverty
It is the efficiency by which that consumption growth has been translated into poverty reduction which is of significance
Draws attention to the way approaches to understanding data on poverty and inequality has a very significant impact on the narratives and policies that develop from the data
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Inequality
- Globalisation
- Sustainability
- The Cold War
- Global Consumption
- The Welfare State
- Welfare Dynamics
- World Development Indicators
- Poverty Lines
- Global Poverty Estimates
- Economic Growth
- Global Growth Incidence Curves
- Global Population Density Curves
- Global Consumption Density Curves
- The Precariat
- The Securiat
- The Prosperiat
- Wealth Redistribution
- Philanthropy
- The World Bank
- development aid
About this book
In this book Edward and Sumner argue that to better understand the impact of global growth on poverty it is necessary to consider what happens across a wide range of poverty lines. Starting with the same datasets used to produce official estimates of global poverty, they create a model of global consumption that spans the entire world’s population. They go on to demonstrate how their model can be utilised to understand how different poverty lines imply very different visions of how the global economy needs to work in order for poverty to be eradicated.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Peter Edward is Director of the MBA programme and Lecturer in International Business Management at Newcastle University Business School, UK. His research focuses on business ethics and corporate social responsibility, the changing role of business in society and the impact of global economic growth on major societal challenges, particularly on poverty and inequality.
Andy Sumner is Reader in International Development at King’s College London, UK. His research focuses on global poverty and the distributional and welfare dynamics of late economic development in developing countries.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The End of Poverty
Book Subtitle: Inequality and Growth in Global Perspective
Authors: Peter Edward, Andy Sumner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14764-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14763-1Published: 06 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14764-8Published: 23 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 89
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Aid, Development and Sustainability, Development Policy, International Political Economy, Politics of the Welfare State