TY - BOOK AU - Bush,Ray TI - Poverty and neoliberalism: persistence and reproduction in the global south SN - 0745319602 U1 - 339.46096 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Pluto Press KW - Capitalism KW - Social aspects KW - Africa KW - Mines and mineral resources KW - Neoliberalism KW - Economic aspects N1 - This book examines the ways in which poverty in the Global South is created and reproduced. More than a billion people, one in five, live on less than US$l a day. Poverty is often linked by policy makers to the poor lacking access to the world's resources, land, minerals and food. In contrast this book examines the difficulties the poor have in controlling resources and in shaping their use to the promotion of greater equity and social justice ER -