THE SKEPTIC’S GUIDE TO GLOBAL POVERTY
By Dale Hanson Bourke
Authentic Media. 112 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978-1-932805-57-4
Of the 6.5 billion people in the world nearly half live on less than US$2 per day and 20% of us consume 86% of the world’s goods. The GDP of the poorest 48 nations is less than the combined wealth of the world’s richest three people and the combined economies of all 48 sub-Saharan African countries are about the same as the city of Chicago.
These are some of the shocking statistics that you will encounter reading The Skeptic’s Guide to Global Poverty. The book aims to identify the extent and common causes of global poverty whilst also helping the reader to get to grips with the main players on the international stage seeking to respond to the enormous task. (If you struggle to distinguish between the IMF, WTO, WFP, WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, etc., then this book is a helpful jargon-buster.) It is short and easy to read, written in a question and answer format covering wide areas of concern from ‘What is capitalism?’ to ‘What does it mean to be a refugee?’
