From Poverty to Power
How active citizens and effective states can change the world
This new edition of From Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes a new chapter with an in-depth analysis of the human impact of the global financial and food crises. From Poverty to Power argues that a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets rather than traditional models of charitable or government aid is required to break the cycle of poverty and inequality. The forces driving this transformation are active citizens and effective states. Why active citizens? Because people living in poverty must have a voice in deciding their own destiny and holding the state and the private sector to account. Why effective states? Because history shows that no country has prospered without a state structure that can actively manage the development process. There is now an added urgency: climate change. We need to build a secure, fair, and sustainable world within the limits set by scarce resources and ecological realities.Published in association with Oxfam GB.
Published: 2012
Pages: 488
eBook: 9781780447407
Paperback: 9781853397417
Hardback: 9781853397400
| Prelims (Praise for this book, Contents, List of figures, tables, and boxes, About the author, Foreword - Amartya Sen, Preface to the Second Edition, Acknowledgements, List of acronyms) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.”
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