Description
Examines the role that global policies have played in creating the crisis of rural poverty. This book explains the mechanisms of the markets and supply chains, charting their impact on agricultural trade in the worlds poorest countries.
Chapter
Table 1 The countries with the highest human development indicators
Table 2 The countries defined as of low human development
Table 3 Average world primary commodity prices over three-year periods, 1977—9 and 2004—6
Table 4 Changes in terms of trade of some country groups, 1980—2 to 2001—3
Table 5 Commodity-dependent developing countries (2003—5) grouped by the character of trade access to the US and EU of their leading commodity export
Table 6 Vegetable trade in sub-Saharan Africa, 1990 and 2005
Table 7 Sub-Saharan Africa’s trade in staple foods and sugar
Figure 1 Types of commodity supply management (limited supply)
1 Those who have fallen behind
Table 1 The countries with the highest human development indicators
Table 2 The countries defined as of low human development
Poverty under globalization
What made countries poor?
A foot on the accelerator
The export orientation trap
Table 3 Average world primary commodity prices over three-year periods, 1977—9 and 2004—6
Table 4 Changes in terms of trade of some country groups, 1980—2 to 2001—3
Blaming the poor’s rulers
‘Get the prices right’ revisited
3 Do the market’s job for it
The commodity markets are booming, aren’t they?
Problems in how commodity markets work
Table 5 Commodity-dependent developing countries (2003—5) grouped by the character of trade access to the US and EU of their leading commodity export
Table 6 Vegetable trade in sub-Saharan Africa, 1990 and 2005
Figure 1 Types of commodity supply management (limited supply)
4 Not farming but gambling
More hoops to jump through
Is breaking up so hard to do?
5 Getting out of the trap
Table 7 Sub-Saharan Africa’s trade in staple foods and sugar
6 Can we put history behind us?
The history of globalization
Making Poverty
：A History
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