World Poverty

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
ISBN 1414409842......Page 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 6
Absolute and Relative Poverty......Page 8
Composite Poverty Indicators......Page 9
POVERTY LINES AND THE DOLLAR-A-DAY STANDARD......Page 10
POVERTY THRESHOLDS AND GUIDELINES IN THE UNITED STATES......Page 11
CONTROVERSIES OVER U.S. POVERTY MEASUREMENTS......Page 12
CLASSIFYING COUNTRIES BY LEVEL OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT......Page 13
Globalization and Fair Trade......Page 14
International Debt......Page 15
HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION......Page 16
Agricultural Subsidies, Trade, and Food Aid......Page 18
Other Factors of Hunger......Page 19
The Working Poor in the Informal Economy......Page 20
EDUCATION AND LITERACY......Page 22
AFRICA: THE POOREST CONTINENT......Page 30
Ongoing Violence......Page 31
THE POOR IN AFRICA......Page 32
Literacy and Education......Page 34
ASIA: THE LARGEST AND MOST POPULOUS CONTINENT......Page 36
Afghanistan......Page 37
Timor-Leste......Page 42
ASIA......Page 44
From Dynasties to Communism to a Free(er) Market Economy......Page 45
China’s Growing Middle Class......Page 46
Poverty Decreases, Especially among Rural Peasants......Page 47
Colonialism and the Caste System in India......Page 50
Economics of Contemporary India......Page 51
Colonization and Inequality in Latin America......Page 54
A History of Unequal Land Distribution......Page 55
Income Poverty Statistics......Page 56
THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS......Page 59
Kazakhstan......Page 60
Kyrgyzstan......Page 61
Tajikistan......Page 62
Turkmenistan......Page 63
Uzbekistan......Page 64
Death Camps, Famine, and the Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons......Page 65
CHARACTERISTICS OF POVERTY IN WEALTHY COUNTRIES......Page 68
What Poverty Looks Like in the United States......Page 69
Patterns of U.S. Poverty as Reported by the Census Bureau......Page 75
The United Kingdom......Page 76
Germany......Page 77
EASTERN EUROPE: THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION......Page 78
Russian Poverty since the 1990s......Page 79
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1995......Page 84
PROGRESS TOWARD INTERNATIONAL GOALS......Page 85
Beijing+10.......Page 86
The Millennium Development Goals: Five Years Later......Page 87
Women’s Work......Page 88
Women’s Wages and Poverty Rates in the Developed World......Page 90
Reproductive Health and Poverty......Page 91
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN......Page 97
POVERTY’S YOUNGEST VICTIMS......Page 100
Children’s Health and Mortality......Page 109
Child Labor......Page 112
Child Trafficking......Page 115
Debt Bondage and Forced Labor......Page 118
WHICH AREAS ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO NATURAL DISASTERS?......Page 120
Ethiopia: The ‘‘Face of Famine’’......Page 121
Asian Tsunami......Page 122
Hurricane Katrina: Exposing the Worst in the World’s Richest Nation......Page 124
CATEGORIES OF VIOLENT CONFLICT......Page 130
VIOLENTCONFLICTANDHUMANDEVELOPMENT......Page 131
Land Mines......Page 132
Darfur......Page 133
The Middle East......Page 136
Iraq......Page 138
POVERTY IMPROVES . . . OR DOES IT?......Page 142
ANTIPOVERTY CAMPAIGNS CHAMPIONED BY THE RICH AND FAMOUS......Page 144
END OF POVERTY?......Page 145
IMPORTANT NAMES AND ADDRESSES......Page 148
RESOURCES......Page 150
C......Page 152
E......Page 153
H......Page 154
L......Page 155
P......Page 156
S......Page 157
V......Page 158
Z......Page 159