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Erasing the crime of poverty: January Magazine reviews Seth Donnelly’s “The Lie of Global Prosperity”

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The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
120 pp, $21 pbk, ISBN 978-1-58367-765-0
By Seth Donnelly

Reviewed by Ben Terrall

“Seth Donnelly’s The Lie of Global Prosperity, released in paperback late last year, is a methodical examination of how the World Bank spins its number crunching to cover up the extent of global poverty. Donnelly bolsters his analysis with on-the-ground reporting from numerous fact-finding trips to Haiti; the descriptions of what he found there effectively show how World Bank support for unjust governments plays out on the ground in underdeveloped nations…”

Read the review at January Magazine

The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation by Seth Donnelly

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