• ISBN13: 9781138826823
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: February 15, 2015
• Pages: 342
• Original Price: 43.99 GBP
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 409 grams

About the Book Around 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a relatively low international profile until the end of the 20th century. In this important new work, Hulme charts the rise of global poverty as a priority global issue, and its subsequent marginalisation as old themes edged it aside (trade policy and peace-making in regions of geo-political importance) and new issues were added (terrorism, global climate change and access to natural resources). Key updates for the new edition: <ul> <li>evaluation of the post-2015 Development Agenda and the Rio]20</li> <li>exploration of how Colombia and Brazil are pushing a sustainability agenda as a Southern perspective to challenge the aid focus of OECD post-MDGs interests</li> <li>examination and discussion of the gradual shift of power and influence to the BRICs and emerging regional powers (Indonesia, Turkey, South Africa) but the lack of change in global institutions</li> <li>exploration of Russia's lack of participation in the development agenda </li> </ul> The first book to tackle the issue of global poverty through the lens of global institutions; this fully updated volume provides an important resource for all students and scholars of international relations, development studies and international political economy.