Betrayed: Politics, Power, and Prosperity

by S. Kaplan

Overview

Betrayed takes a new approach to the subject of global poverty, one that doesn't blame the West but also doesn't rely on the West for solutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137518422
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/03/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Seth Kaplan is a Professorial Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Table of Contents

1. The Same Species, the Same Dreams 2. The Blame Game 3. Who Are the Poor? 4. Why Are They Poor? 5. Breaking Out 6. Power and Self-Belief 7. Building Support for an Inclusive Agenda 8. Constructing a Stronger State 9. Getting to a Workable Scale 10. Enhancing Opportunity 11. Enlarging Markets, Spreading Wealth 12. Leading Change from Within 13. Refocusing Foreign Aid 14. Helping Others to Help Themselves

Editorial Reviews

"Kaplan makes a compelling and eloquent argument for empowering all citizens, especially the poor. He explains how hard-working individuals are shackled to their poverty, how discrimination stifles the entrepreneurial hopes of entire groups of people, and how political and economic exclusion conspire to keep elites rich at everyone else's expense. . . . It is, he says, up to the elites and leaders of the developing world to start building and operating this machinery." - Jerry Rawlings, Former President of the Republic of Ghana

"Betrayed is an interesting, readable presentation of a complex and often difficult subject. The author's approach to and analysis of world poverty and what can be done to change the dynamic underpinning it will be a worthy read for both development professionals as well as the general educated reader." - Andrew Natsios, Former Head, USAID

"A welcome relief from the avalanche of microstudies with narrow approach and applicability . . . It is refreshing to see a multidisciplinary approach and one that references works from a wide variety of academic, think tank, practitioner, and official sources." - Governance

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