The Poor and the Plutocrats: From the poorest of the poor to the richest of the rich
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0198870140 | 255 Pages | PDF True | 5.2 MB
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0198870140 | 255 Pages | PDF True | 5.2 MB
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,