Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Framing Poverty and Neo-Liberalism: The Middle East and North Africa
2. Commissioning Africa for Globalisation: Blair and the G8's Project for the World Poor
3. Labour Across Frontier? Capitalism's Struggle for Profit and Order
4. Land Poverty and Politics
5. Wealth and Poverty: Mining and the Curse of Resources?
6. Securing Food and Famine
7. Resisting Poverty and Neo-Liberalism
Notes
Index

About the Author

Ray Bush is Professor of African Studies and Development Politics, University of Leeds. He is the author of Poverty and Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2007).

Reviews

'This is a truly refreshing and engaging book on neo-liberalism and its discontents in the Global South'
*Adebayo Olukoshi, Executive Secretary, CODESRIA*

'Unveils the conceptual uses and abuses of 'poverty' and breaks new ground in the way we think about class and other social struggles in Africa'
*Patrick Bond, Director, University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society, Durban, South Africa*

'Ray Bush explains eloquently and powerfully the persistence and deepening of poverty in Africa'
*John Loxley, Professor of Economics and Research Co-ordinator, Global Political Economy Program, University of Manitoba, Canada*

'A hard-headed and systematic critique of the way the goal of development has been replaced by hand-wringing about 'poverty' has been badly needed. Ray Bush's cogent and detailed analysis is one no student - and no 'anti-poverty' campaigner, however celebrated - will be able to ignore'
*Colin Leys, Emeritus Professor at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, and author of The Rise and Fall of Development Theory*