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<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">We are delighted to announce that
Haiti Action Committee member Seth Donnelly </font><font
size="4">has just published a book with Monthly Review Press
called <u>The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals
Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation.</u> The
struggle in Haiti informs the analysis. Check it out: <font
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<div><font size="4">"This short book deconstructs the assumption
that global poverty has fallen dramatically, and lays bare
the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on
which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Here is
carefully researched documentation that global poverty—and
the inequalities and misery that flourish within it—remains
massive, afflicting the majority of the world’s population.
Donnelly goes further to analyze just how global poverty,
rather than being reduced, is actually reproduced by the
imperatives of capital accumulation on a global scale. Just
as the global, environmental catastrophe cannot be resolved
within capitalism, rooted as it is in contemporary
mechanisms of exploitation and plunder, neither can human
poverty be effectively eliminated by neoliberal 'advances.'"<br>
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<h1 itemprop="name" class="product_title entry-title">The Lie
of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask
Poverty and Exploitation</h1>
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href="https://monthlyreview.org/author/sethdonnelly/"
title="Posts by Seth Donnelly" class="author url fn"
rel="author">Seth Donnelly - <font size="-2">https://monthlyreview.org/product/lie_of_global_prosperity/</font><br>
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<p>“We’re making headway on global poverty,” trills
billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. “Decline of Global
Extreme Poverty Continues,” reports the World Bank. And “How
did the global poverty rate halve in 20 years?” inquires <em>The
Economist</em> magazine. Seth Donnelly answers: “It
didn’t!” In fact, according to Donnelly’s <em>The Lie of
Global Prosperity</em>, virtually nothing about these glad
tidings proclaiming plummeting global poverty rates is true.
It’s just that trend-setting neoliberal experts and
institutions need us to believe that global capitalism, now
unfettered in the wake of the Cold War and bolstered by
Information Technology, has ushered in a new phase of
international human prosperity.</p>
<p>This short book deconstructs the assumption that global
poverty has fallen dramatically, and lays bare the spurious
methods of poverty measurement and data on which the
dominant prosperity narrative depends. Here is carefully
researched documentation that global poverty—and the
inequalities and misery that flourish within it—remains
massive, afflicting the majority of the world’s population.
Donnelly goes further to analyze just how global poverty,
rather than being reduced, is actually reproduced by the
imperatives of capital accumulation on a global scale. Just
as the global, environmental catastrophe cannot be resolved
within capitalism, rooted as it is in contemporary
mechanisms of exploitation and plunder, neither can human
poverty be effectively eliminated by neoliberal “advances.”</p>
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