Poverty And The Planet: A Question Of Survival

by Ben Jackson

This study looks for answers to the problems posed by Western aid and development which threaten rather than improve Third World economy and agriculture, by imposing industrial models or service models on economies which need to develop agricultural capacity and in doing so, preserve the environment.

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 4, 1990

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[Craig Loftus · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is concerned with the economic system and historical events which lead to the development of the global debt crisis. However, its breadth is greater than this, and it branches out into more wide ranging problems with the current economic systems, social and political attitudes to the world development.

This book was published in 1990 and as a result a little dated. It is still a good read and much of the book concerns itself with the history of how global debt and associated problems developed. Obviously it is not able to comment on the latest developments in the situation; I don't believe the World Development Movement (WDM) has produced a revised version.