Introduction
The combined impact of global poverty and inequality is one of the most significant moral and political issues in global politics. While contemporary levels of global poverty are improving in overall terms, they still lead to the death of many vulnerable people around the world from poverty-related causes of starvation, malnutrition, or disease. Coupled with global poverty are wide and growing forms of inequality within and between societies around the world. Consequently, global poverty and its consequences of insecurity, despair, and powerlessness have become contentious issues as demonstrated by the activism of civil society organizations (CSOs), the policies of international governmental organizations (IGOs) such as the United Nations (UN), and the continual pressure of less developed countries (LDCs) that possess the bulk of the global poor. This entry examines the scale and nature of contemporary global poverty and inequality, outlines the drivers of these forms of...
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Slaughter, S. (2017). Global Poverty and Inequality. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_1231-1
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