Immiserizing Growth
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Immiserizing growth occurs when economic growth fails to benefit, or even harms, the poor. This first book-length examination of this phemonenon combines discussion of the mechanisms of immiserizing growth with empirical data on trends in growth, poverty, and related welfare indicators.

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Immiserizing growth occurs when economic growth fails to benefit, or even harms, the poor. This first book-length examination of this phemonenon combines discussion of the mechanisms of immiserizing growth with empirical data on trends in growth, poverty, and related welfare indicators.
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Paul Shaffer is an Associate Professor of International Development Studies, at Trent University, Canada. His work focuses on poverty in the Global South on which he has published widely. He is the author of Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis (2013) Ravi Kanbur has published in the leading economics journals, including Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory and Economic Journal. He has also served on the senior staff of the World Bank including as Chief Economist for Africa. He is President of the Human Development and Capabilities Association, Chair of the Board of United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research, Co-Chair of the Scientific Council of the International Panel on Social Progress, member of the OECD High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance, Past-President of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, past member of the High Level Advisory Council of the Climate Justice Dialogue, and past-member of the Core Group of the Commission on Global Poverty. Richard Sandbrook is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His current research focuses on the Left's experience in the Global South and on counter-hegemonic globalization. He has taught in Kenya as well as Canada and has been a visiting research fellow at the IDS, Sussex and the Centre for Development Research in Copenhagen. He has conducted field work mainly in Africa. He has published more than 50 scholarly articles and 12 books, including most recently Reinventing the Left in the Global South: The Politics of the Possible (2014), Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide {2014), and Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (2007).