From Poverty to Power: How active citizens and effective states can change the world

Green, Duncan

ISBN 10: 1853397415 / ISBN 13: 9781853397417

Published by Practical Action Publishing, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Poverty to Power: How active citizens and effective states can change the world
• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853397415
• ISBN 13: 9781853397417
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 760 grams

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Synopsis

This new edition of From Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes a new chapter with an in-depth analysis of the human impact of the global financial and food crises. From Poverty to Power argues that a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets rather than traditional models of charitable or government aid is required to break the cycle of poverty and inequality. The forces driving this transformation are active citizens and effective states. Why active citizens? Because people living in poverty must have a voice in deciding their own destiny and holding the state and the private sector to account. Why effective states? Because history shows that no country has prospered without a state structure that can actively manage the development process. There is now an added urgency: climate change. We need to build a secure, fair, and sustainable world within the limits set by scarce resources and ecological realities.Published in association with Oxfam GB.

About the Author

Duncan Green is the author of From Poverty to Power and Oxfam GB’s Senior Strategic Adviser. He was Oxfam’s Head of Research from 2004-12. From Poverty to Power contains the accumulated knowledge of 25 years spent researching and writing about reducing poverty and combating injustice and, as he says, trying to “do justice to the complexity of the world, while still believing there is a story about how it can be changed for the better.”