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 …

1. Introduction -- 2. Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding the ongoing poverty -- 3. The international aid architecture … framework -- 6. The Somali famine -- 7. The misery of Palestinian people -- 8. Hosting Syrian refugees -- 9. Lending a helping …

In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …