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The State of World Rural Poverty: An Inquiry Into Its Causes and Consequences

The State of World Rural Poverty: An Inquiry Into Its Causes and Consequences

Jazairy, Idriss
Stanier, John

Paperback

Business GeneralGeneral SociologyUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0814737544
ISBN13: 9780814737545
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Jan 1 1993
Pages: 540
Weight: 2.33
Height: 1.09 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Poverty is spreading. There are now as many people living in absolute poverty - almost a billion in the rural Third World alone - as lived on the entire planet only a century ago. Yet poverty continues to be shrouded in mystery.
Consider that: Four-fifths of the world's poor live in rural areas; About 340 million people worldwide are currently chronically ill from malnutrition; Over 500 million do not get enough calories to do a full day's labor; At a time when enough grain is being produced to provide everyone in the world with twice the daily minimum caloric requirements, global hunger is at an all-time high; Half again as many rural women - almost 600 million - live in absolute poverty today as did 20 years.

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