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BL
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1007106
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b761476
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Gruffydd Jones, Branwen,1972-
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Explaining global poverty : : a critical realist approach /\ Branwen Gruffydd Jones.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Routledge,, 2006.
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Routledge studies in critical realism
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1 online resource (xv, 234 pages)
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0203965108
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: 9780203965108
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0415392128
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9780415392129
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| Notes
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Author's revised version of a PhD thesis, submitted to the University of Sussex in 2001.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-228) and index.
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| Contents
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Why is Africa poor?; Part I: Poverty, need and objectivity in social inquiry; 1 Poverty and development in Africa: Twentieth-century orthodoxies; 2 Critical perspectives: From global structure to local agency; 3 Objectivity, need and the dialectics of emancipation; 4 Marxism, imperialism and Africa; Part II: Explaining poverty: The massive presence of the past and the outside; 5 The presence of the past: Slavery, colonialism and primitive accumulation.
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| Abstract
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Gruffydd Jones' approach brings a book of real relevance for inequality in the modern world and gives an important platform from which to move forwards in the fight against poverty.
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Poverty-- Africa.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Macroeconomics.
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Economic history.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Economic Conditions.
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Poverty.
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Africa, Economic conditions.
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Africa.
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| Dewey Classification
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339.46096
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HC800.Z9P656 2006eb
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