The divide : a brief guide to global inequality and its solutions / Jason Hickel.

By:

Hickel, Jason [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : William Heinemann, 2017Description: 347 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781785151132 (pbk.)
1785151134

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305 HIC 23 011208

Contents:

Pt. One The Divide One. The Development Delusion Two. The End of Poverty... Has Been Postponed pt. Two Concerning Violence Three. Where Did Poverty Come From? A Creation Story Four. From Colonialism to the Coup pt. Three The New Colonialism Five. Debt and the Economics of Planned Misery Six. Free Trade and the Rise of the Virtual Senate Seven. Plunder in the 21st Century pt. Four Closing the Divide Eight. From Charity to Justice Nine. The Necessary Madness of Imagination.

Summary: For decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries. We have been told that development is working: that the global South is catching up to the North, that poverty has been cut in half over the past thirty years, and will be eradicated by 2030. But is it true? This book deals with this topic.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Pt. One The Divide
One. The Development Delusion
Two. The End of Poverty... Has Been Postponed
pt. Two Concerning Violence
Three. Where Did Poverty Come From? A Creation Story
Four. From Colonialism to the Coup
pt. Three The New Colonialism
Five. Debt and the Economics of Planned Misery
Six. Free Trade and the Rise of the Virtual Senate
Seven. Plunder in the 21st Century
pt. Four Closing the Divide
Eight. From Charity to Justice
Nine. The Necessary Madness of Imagination.

For decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries. We have been told that development is working: that the global South is catching up to the North, that poverty has been cut in half over the past thirty years, and will be eradicated by 2030. But is it true? This book deals with this topic.

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