The Poor and the Plutocrats: From the poorest of the poor to the richest of the rich
Francis Teal, "The Poor and the Plutocrats: From the poorest of the poor to the richest of the rich"
English | ISBN: 0198870140 | 2021 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0198870140 | 2021 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Why we are poor and others are so very rich, indeed, why they are so rich when we are still very poor.
A decisive examination of inequality and its relationship to poverty and wealth, The Poor and the Plutocrats explores how we live in a world of very many poor people and a very few extremely rich ones - the poor and the plutocrats of the title. Globally the last twenty years have seen declines in inequality between countries and the fastest fall in the numbers of absolutely poor in history - those living on less than the World Bank extreme poverty line of US$1.90 per day. In parallel, inequality within some countries has increased markedly, particularly in the US and the UK.
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