Social Science Developing Countries
Conflicts of Interest
Canada and the Third World
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Initial publish date
- May 1991
- Category
- Developing Countries, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921284413
- Publish Date
- May 1991
- List Price
- $21.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926662640
- Publish Date
- May 1991
- List Price
- $20.99
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Description
Ten activists, scholars, and writers analyze contemporary development issues linking Canada and the Third World, and provide an in-depth critique of Canada’s role in perpetuating poverty in the nations of the South. Widely adopted as a course text at the college and university level.
About the authors
Kingston writer Jamie Swift is the author of a dozen books, most recently The Vimy Trap, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War (with Ian McKay), finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the Canadian Historical Association Prize for the Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History. He has held the Michener Foundation fellowship for public service journalism and was a longtime documentary producer for CBC-Radio’s “Ideas.” In addition to the writing life, he is a social justice advocate. He taught “Critical Perspectives on Business” at the Smith School of Business, Queen’s University for many years.