Global Poverty: Global governance and poor people in the Post-2015 Era

345 Pages·2015·3.738 MB·English

by  David Hulme

Global Poverty
At least 1.2 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and yet
despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a relatively low
international profile until the end of the twentieth century. In this
important new work, Hulme charts the rise of global poverty as a
priority global issue, and its subsequent marginalization as old themes
edged it aside (trade policy and peacemaking in regions of geopolitical
importance) and new issues were added (terrorism, global climate
change, and access to natural resources).
Key updates for the new edition:
(cid:1) Evaluation of the post-2015 DevelopmentAgendaand Sustainable
Development Goals.
(cid:1) Exploration of how Colombia, Brazil and the G77 are pushing a
sustainability agenda as a Southern perspective to challenge the
aid focus of OECD post-MDGs interests.
(cid:1) Examination and discussion of the gradual shift of power and
influence to the BRICs and emerging regional powers (Indonesia,
Turkey,SouthAfrica),butthelackofchangeinglobalinstitutions.
(cid:1) An expanded analysis of the strategic and practical actions that
individuals can take to help eradicate global poverty.
The first book to tackle the issue of global poverty through the lens of
global institutions, this fully updated and extended volume provides an
important resourceforallstudentsandscholarsofinternationalrelations,
development studies, and international political economy.
David Hulme is Professor of Development Studies and Director,
Global Development Institute (formerly Institute for Development
Policy and Management) at the University of Manchester, UK.
Global Institutions
Edited by Thomas G. Weiss
The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA
and Rorden Wilkinson
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
About the series
The “Global Institutions Series” provides cutting-edge books about
manyaspectsofwhatweknowas“globalgovernance.”Itemergesfromour
shared frustrations with the state of available knowledge—electronic and
print-wise,forresearchandteaching—inthearea.Theseriesisdesignedasa
resource for those interested in exploring issues of international organiza-
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wehavetakensignificantstridestowardfillingconceptualgaps.
Theseriesconsistsofthreerelated“streams”distinguishedbytheirblue,
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organizations,aswellaskeyissuesintheglobalgovernanceofsecurity,
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Global Poverty
Global governance and poor people in
the post-2015 era
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To Mum and Dad who saw the beginning of this book but
not its completion.
To my amazing children—Edward, Jasmine and Saffron—
for limitless guidance on IT, indie music, horse-trading,
baking cakes and much more.
To Hugo for his smile in the morning.
To Georgina who keeps our show on the road, copes with
my lifetime of absences and makes life so much fun.
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Contents
List of illustrations x
Foreword by Richard Jolly xiii
Acknowledgement xviii
Abbreviations xxi
Introduction 1
1 The history and geography of global poverty 21
2 Understanding and explaining global poverty 56
3 The institutional landscape for attacking global poverty 96
4 “Doing” global poverty eradication: transformation
or incremental progress? 132
5 Strategic choices for the post-2015 Development Agenda 176
6 The future of global poverty: emerging issues in
an uncertain world 210
7 Understanding the global governance of poverty: why
don’t we care? 238
8 Moving forward on global poverty: can we care? 265
Appendix: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 283
Select Bibliography 286
Index 289
Routledge Global Institutions Series 306