David Hulme Boeken

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: evaluation of the post-2015 Development Agenda and the Rio+20 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 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 exploration of Russia's lack of participation in the development agenda 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.

In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1. 2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2. 9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs.

In his book on a disastrous cotton mill fire in the Cheshire town of Stockport in 1902, journalist and broadcaster David Edwards Hulme delves deep into the tragedy which killed nine mill workers, including his maternal great grandfather. It was a disaster that is still relevant today in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower inferno.