| Preface | xiii |
| 1 | Introduction and Overview | 1 |
| Concepts of Income Poverty | 3 |
| Measuring Income Poverty | 4 |
| The Map of World Poverty | 6 |
| Other Poverty Indicators | 9 |
| World Hunger | 11 |
| Poverty and Health | 13 |
| Poverty and Education | 15 |
| Where Does Poverty Come from? | 18 |
| Poverty in Neoclassical Perspective | 20 |
| The Washington Consensus | 22 |
| International Borrowing | 24 |
| Aid with Strings Attached | 25 |
| Millennium Development Goals | 27 |
| Room for Hope | 28 |
| References and Further Reading | 30 |
| 2 | Aid, Trade, Debt, and the World's Poor: Some Key Controversies | 33 |
| The Effectiveness of Aid | 35 |
| Statistics Don't Lie (Do They?) | 37 |
| Some Aid Realities | 39 |
| A New Aid Challenge: Aging | 40 |
| Poverty and Trade | 42 |
| The Damage from Agricultural Subsidies | 44 |
| Defending Agricultural Subsidies | 46 |
| Trade Restrictions on Poor Countries | 47 |
| The Debt Issue | 49 |
| Odious Debt | 50 |
| Objections to "Odious Debt" | 52 |
| The HIPC Initiatives, 1996 and 1999 | 53 |
| Problems with HIPC | 54 |
| Is Debt Relief Useless? | 56 |
| References and Further Reading | 58 |
| 3 | Special U.S. Issues | 61 |
| The Right Amount of Foreign Aid | 61 |
| Does the Public Support Foreign Aid? | 63 |
| Who Gets U.S. Foreign Aid? | 64 |
| The Bigger Picture | 66 |
| Immigration | 68 |
| Current Sources of U.S. Immigration | 69 |
| Open Border Ethics, in Brief | 70 |
| Open Border Impacts | 71 |
| Drug Pricing for Poor Nations | 73 |
| Obstacles to Making Drugs Available | 74 |
| A WTO Breakthrough | 75 |
| Poverty and Terrorism | 75 |
| Weak Evidence | 77 |
| Fight Poverty Anyway | 78 |
| References and Further Reading | 78 |
| 4 | Chronology | 81 |
| References and Further Reading | 99 |
| 5 | Biographical Sketches | 101 |
| Carol Bellamy (1942- ) | 102 |
| Catherine Bertini (1950- ) | 103 |
| Nancy Birdsall (1946- ) | 104 |
| Bono (1960- ) | 105 |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland (1939- ) | 106 |
| Pieter Dijkhuizen (1941- ) | 107 |
| Bill Gates (1955- ) | 108 |
| Bob Geldof (1951- ) | 109 |
| James P. Grant (1922-1995) | 110 |
| Fatima Jibrell (1948- ) | 111 |
| Bernard Kouchner (1939- ) | 112 |
| Frances Moore Lappe (1944- ) | 113 |
| Santiago Levy (1956- ) | 114 |
| George McGovern (1922- ) | 115 |
| Robert S. McNamara (1916- ) | 116 |
| James T. Morris (1943- ) | 117 |
| Andrew S. Natsios (1949- ) | 118 |
| Winston Hugh Njongonkulu Ndungane (1941- ) | 119 |
| Kavita N. Ramdas (1963- ) | 120 |
| Jeffrey Sachs (1954- ) | 121 |
| Dita Sari (1972- ) | 122 |
| Amartya K. Sen (1933- ) | 123 |
| Alfred Sommer (1942- ) | 124 |
| Joseph E. Stiglitz (1943- ) | 125 |
| Paul E. Tierney, Jr. (1943- ) | 126 |
| James D. Wolfensohn (1933- ) | 127 |
| Muhammad Yunus (1940- ) | 128 |
| 6 | Data and Documents | 131 |
| Statistics on Global Poverty | 131 |
| Documents | 152 |
| Millennium Development Goals (2000) | 153 |
| Millennium Challenge Account: Frequently Asked Questions | 160 |
| Fight Terrorism and Poverty | 165 |
| HIV/AIDS and Poverty | 168 |
| Rome Declaration on World Food Security (1996) | 171 |
| Undernourishment around the World | 175 |
| Links between Gender Equality and Poverty Reduction | 179 |
| China and India: Impressive Growth, Important Differences | 181 |
| Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992) | 184 |
| Debt Relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative: A Factsheet-September 2003 | 187 |
| The Monterrey Consensus (2002): Selected Passages | 190 |
| 7 | Directory of Organizations | 199 |
| Official Agencies | 200 |
| Microcredit Organizations | 212 |
| Faith-Based Relief and Development | 214 |
| Nonreligious Relief and Development | 220 |
| Advocacy and Research | 228 |
| 8 | Selected Print and Nonprint Resources | 237 |
| Monographs | 238 |
| UN and World Bank Publications | 247 |
| Other Agency/NGO Reports | 251 |
| Journals | 252 |
| Websites | 255 |
| Videos | 257 |
| Glossary | 273 |
| Index | 281 |
| About the Author | 299 |
