
From Poverty to Power
How active citizens and effective states can change the world
Published: 2012
Pages: 488
eBook: 9781780447407
Paperback: 9781853397417
Hardback: 9781853397400
1. Introduction
2. Power and Politics
3. Poverty and Wealth: The role of markets in development
4. Human Security: Managing risk and vulnerability
5. The International System
6. How History Happens: The food and financial crises of 2008-11
7. Conclusion: A new deal for a new century
Back Matter (Notes, Bibliography, Background papers and case studies, Glossary, Index)
Duncan Green
Duncan Green is the author of From Poverty to Power and Oxfam GB’s Senior Strategic Adviser. He was Oxfam’s Head of Research from 2004-12. From Poverty to Power contains the accumulated knowledge of 25 years spent researching and writing about reducing poverty and combating injustice and, as he says, trying to “do justice to the complexity of the world, while still believing there is a story about how it can be changed for the better.”