Global poverty, hunger, death, and disease
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to address the global dimensions of poverty, hunger, death, and disease.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors assemble the most recently available data on these four human scourges from reliable international sources.
Findings
Reducing the higher incidence of poverty, hunger, death, and disease in sub‐Saharan African countries depends critically on the extension of four revolutions – biological, intellectual, political, and scientific‐technological.
Originality/value
The paper selects and interprets these data from the perspectives of economics and paediatrics.
Keywords
Citation
O'Boyle, E. and O'Boyle, M. (2012), "Global poverty, hunger, death, and disease", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 39 No. 1/2, pp. 4-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068291211188848
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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