Explaining global poverty : a critical realist approach / Branwen Gruffydd Jones.

Author's revised version of a PhD thesis, submitted to the University of Sussex in 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [198]-228) and index.

Part I: Poverty, need and objectivity in social inquiry -- Poverty and development in Africa : twentieth-century orthodoxies -- Critical perspectives : from global structure to local agency -- Objectivity, need and the dialectics of emancipation -- Marxism, imperialism and Africa -- Part II: Explaining poverty : the massive presence of the past and the outside -- The presence of the past : slavery, colonialism and primitive accumulation -- The presence of the outside : revolution, counter-revolution and the production of absence -- Neo-colonialism and the reproduction of poverty : contemporary dialectics of accumulation and dispossession.

"This book explores how social inquiry informed by critical realism can provide a better explanation of global poverty than existing dominant approaches."--BOOK JACKET.