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Politics as Usual: What Lies Behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric Hardback - 2010 - 1st Edition
by Thomas W. Pogge
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- Hardcover
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- Title Politics as Usual: What Lies Behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric
- Author Thomas W. Pogge
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press
- Date 2010-05-17
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780745638928
- ISBN 9780745638928 / 0745638929
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.7 x 6.8 x 0.8 in (24.64 x 17.27 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Poverty, Poverty - Government policy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010282474
- Dewey Decimal Code 339.46
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From the rear cover
Heavily promoted by Western governments and media, this comforting view of the world is widely shared, at least among the affluent. Pogge's new book presents an alternative view: Poverty and oppression persist on a massive scale; political and economic inequalities are rising dramatically both intra-nationally and globally. The affluent states and the international organizations they control knowingly contribute greatly to these evils - selfishly promoting rules and policies harmful to the poor while hypocritically pretending to set and promote ambitious development goals. Pogge's case studies include the $1/day poverty measurement exercise, the cosmetic statistics behind the first Millennium Development Goal, the War on Terror, and the proposed relaxation of the constraints on humanitarian intervention. A powerful moral analysis that shows what Western states would do if they really cared about the values they profess.