globalisation? Will poverty simply diminish with increased global markets? This state-of-the-art critical 'development' reader deals … with these and other related questions. "Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict" examines the inter-relationships between … globalisation, poverty and conflict. It complements current debates in the field of development studies and, in an era in which …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the …