Poverty and Underdevelopment

This week’s question: At what point in history did ‘poverty’ become a problem?

This week’s question: At what point in history did ‘poverty’ become a problem? Why?

This week’s question: At what point in history did ‘poverty’ become a problem? Why? What did people try and do about it?

In other words, if poverty was seen as an urgent problem, what was to be the solution?

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1798 (nee An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations) As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.   The wood of the forest, the grass of the field, and all the natural fruits on earth, which, when land was in common, cost the labourer only the trouble of gathering them, come, even to him, to have an additional price fixed upon them. He must pay for the license to gather them, and must give up to the landlord a portion of what his labour either collects or produces. This portion, or, what comes to the same thing, the price of this portion, constitutes the rent of land, and in the price of the greater part of commodities, makes a third.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mjrc9

http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/1956

http://www. gettyimages. co http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-irish-famine-1845-1849-starving-peasants-at-a-workhouse-news-photo/463985019#the-irish-famine-18451849-starving-peasants-at-a-workhouse-gate-from-picture-id463985019

http://www. gettyimages. co http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/irish-peasant-family-unable-to-pay-rent-because-of-failure-news-photo/113634234#potato-famine-irish-peasant-family-unable-to-pay-rent-because-of-of-picture-id113634234

To return to the big question If poverty is the problem, what is the solution?

Underdevelopment and its geographies Tomorrow: Underdevelopment and its geographies or Legacies of empire, colonial development,t and postcolonial nation-building

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