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1. Peasants and Globalization

   Political economy, rural transformation and the agrarian question

   Edited by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Cristóbal Kay

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world’s population lived in cities. However, on a global scale, poverty overwhelmingly retains a rural face. This book assembles an unparalleled group of internationally-eminent scholars in the field of rural development and social...

   Published April 14th 2010 by Routledge
2. Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization

   Perspectives from Developing and Transition Countries

   By A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Cristóbal Kay

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   A host of internationally eminent scholars are brought together here to explore the structural causes of rural poverty and income inequality, as well as the processes of social exclusion and political subordination encountered by the peasantry and rural workers across a wide range of countries...

   Published February 18th 2009 by Routledge