Preliminary Material / Raju J. Das -- Copyright Page / Raju J. Das -- Acknowledgements / Raju J. Das -- Notes on Contributors / Raju J. Das -- Chapter 1 Analysing Poverty Causally / Raju J. Das -- Chapter 2 Absolute, Relative and Multidimensional Measures of Poverty / Steven Pressman -- Chapter 3 Poverty / Michael Roberts -- Chapter 4 Why Is There Poverty in the Rich Countries? A Marxist Analysis / Jamie Gough -- Chapter 5 Class and Social Needs / Anjan Chakrabarti -- Chapter 6 Needs, Capital Accumulation, and Poverty / Mizhar Mikati -- Chapter 7 The Rise and Fall of Inequality and Poverty Reduction in Brazil / Marcelo Milan -- Chapter 8 Neoliberalism, Financial Imperialism, and Capitalist Growth / Tarique Niazi -- Chapter 9 The Impoverishment of a Nation / John Marangos -- Chapter 10 Betraying the Struggle / Macayla Kisten -- Chapter 11 Poverty, Living Wage and Income Inequality in the Developing World / David Michael M. San Juan -- Chapter 12 Tackling Poverty or Inequality? You Don’t Have to Choose / Thaddeus Hwong -- Chapter 13 The Political Economy of Poverty and Uneven Development / Deepak K. Mishra -- Index / Raju J. Das.

Much ink has been spilled on poverty measurements and trends, at the expense of revealing causality. Assembling multi-disciplinary and international contributions, this book shows that a causal understanding of poverty in rich and poor countries is essential. That understanding must be based on a critical interrogation of the wider social relations which set up the mechanisms producing poverty as an outcome . Processes that widen/strengthen crisis-ridden market relations, that increase income/wealth inequality, and that ‘enhance’ the policy-biases of nation-states and international institutions toward the affluent-propertied strata cause global poverty and undermine poor people’s political power. The processes concentrating wealth-creation are poverty-causing processes. Through theoretical and empirical analyses this volume offers important insights and political prescriptions to address global poverty. Contributors are:Raju J. Das, Deepak K. Mishra, Steven Pressman, Michael Roberts, Jamie Gough, Aram Eisenschitz, Anjan Chakravarty, Mizhar Mikati, Marcelo Milan, Tarique Niazi, John Marangos, Eirini Triarchi, Themis Anthrakidis, Macayla Kisten and Brij Maharaj, David Michael M. San Juan, and Thaddeus Hwong.

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