Globalisation, poverty and conflict: a critical ?development? reader

Is a developmenta (TM) passA(c)? Is it merely a by-product or a a trickle downa (TM) effect of economic growth, spurred by globalisation? Will poverty simply diminish with increased global markets? This state-of-the-art critical a developmenta (TM) reader deals with these and related questions. Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict examines the inter-relationships between globalisation, poverty and conflict. It complements current debates in the field of development studies and, in an era in which development fatigue seems to have become more profound than ever before, it brings the importance of development once again to the forefront. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 is a concrete target which many governments have agreed to work towards.Whether these goals can be realised is another issue. Nonetheless, the Millennium Development Goals have brought more focused attention to development in the past few years and renewed debate about the relationships between the process of globalisation and widespread poverty and the emergence of violent conflicts.