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The Creation of World PovertyHayter, Teresa Publisher: Pluto Press, london, United KingdomYear Published: 1983 First Published: 1981 Pages: 128pp Dewey: 330.16 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX6234 Hayter challenges the assumption that the West is 'helping' the rest of the world to develop. Far from rescuing the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America from their supposed backwardness, the rich countries have accumulated vast wealth at their expense. Abstract: - Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Survival Extremes of Poverty and Wealth Conventional Explanations for Poverty This Past is Not Irrelevant The Europeans Get Ahead Plunder and Loot Plantations, Works and Slaves Profits Markets and the Destruction of Industries Free Trade and Comparative Advantage Hunger Workers and Wages Terms of Trade Exports of Capital Aid Industrialisation Repression and Foreign Support For It Resistance Socialism or Barbarism Bibliography Subject Headings
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