Ethics

Sustainable Agriculture Part 15

THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN          2005 PART XV   PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 27: Reducing Food Poverty by Increasing Agricultural Sustainability in Developing Countries by Jules Pretty, James Morison and Rachel Hine Introduction Over the past 40 years, per capita world food production has grown by …

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The Bottom Billion Part 4

THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS              2007 PART 1V PART 2: THE TRAPS   Chapter 3: The Natural Resource Trap Conflict is not the only trap. A much more paradoxical trap has been the discovery of valuable natural resources in …

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The Creation of World Poverty Part 5

THE CREATION OF WORLD POVERTY TERESA HAYTER Pluto Press in association with Third World First Second edition 1990 PART V   Chapter 5: The Europeans Get Ahead The questions that need to be answered, then, are why, from about 1500 onwards, prodigious advances began to take place in Europe, and why the situation elsewhere deteriorated. …

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The Creation of World Poverty Part 4

THE CREATION OF WORLD POVERTY TERESA HAYTER Pluto Press in association with Third World First Second edition 1990 PART IV Chapter 4: The Past is not Irrelevant It is very hard to understand the present situation of underdeveloped countries without some reference to their past. The accumulation of wealth in Europe and North America, and …

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The Bottom Billion Part 2

THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS              2007 PART 1I PART 1: WHAT’S THE ISSUE   Chapter 1: Falling Behind and Falling Apart: The Bottom Billion (Cont.) Traps, and the countries caught in them Suppose your country is dirt poor, almost …

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