"World poverty is both an intractable and ever-mutable problem. It has afflicted humanity since the earliest times, but its basic features ― aside from the constant, want ― have evolved as history has moved from epoch to epoch. Today, there is broad recognition that a significant segment of the global population is impoverished despite the globalization of the world economy. [..] Two questions ― why destitution is so persistent despite massive global economic growth and what can be done about it ― have animated debates among development scholars and poverty researchers for decades. [..] Yet until now, virtually no one has addressed in a substantial way the most basic precondition for alleviating poverty: human safety. In most poverty-stricken areas of the world, violence is endemic. Whether it is generated by criminals who operate with complete abandon or by the state itself via predatory police forces, violence and threat of it have locked hundreds of millions of people into poverty.
Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros's The Locust Effect focuses on the central role of violence in perpetuating poverty, and shows that if any headway is to be made, this issue has to become a top priority for policymakers. Simply put, if people aren't safe, nothing else matters." -Amazon-
here we are with the Economy & Politics Book Suggestion for the month of December, 2015: The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence, by Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros
"World poverty is both an intractable and ever-mutable problem. It has afflicted humanity since the earliest times, but its basic features ― aside from the constant, want ― have evolved as history has moved from epoch to epoch. Today, there is broad recognition that a significant segment of the global population is impoverished despite the globalization of the world economy. [..] Two questions ― why destitution is so persistent despite massive global economic growth and what can be done about it ― have animated debates among development scholars and poverty researchers for decades. [..] Yet until now, virtually no one has addressed in a substantial way the most basic precondition for alleviating poverty: human safety. In most poverty-stricken areas of the world, violence is endemic. Whether it is generated by criminals who operate with complete abandon or by the state itself via predatory police forces, violence and threat of it have locked hundreds of millions of people into poverty.
Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros's The Locust Effect focuses on the central role of violence in perpetuating poverty, and shows that if any headway is to be made, this issue has to become a top priority for policymakers. Simply put, if people aren't safe, nothing else matters."
-Amazon-
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