Hickel, Jason
The divide : a brief guide to global inequality and its solutions Jason Hickel - London : William Heinemann, c2017. - 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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. It’s a comforting tale and one that is endorsed by the world’s most powerful governments and corporations. But is it true?
Since 1960, the income gap between the North and South has roughly tripled in size. Today 4.3 billion people, 60 percent of the world's population, live on less than $5 per day. Some 1 billion live on less than $1 a day. The richest eight people now control the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world combined.
What is causing this growing divide? We are told that poverty is a natural phenomenon that can be fixed with aid. But in reality, it is a political problem: poverty doesn’t just exist; it has been created.
9781785151132
2017431238
Equality
Globalization
305 HI DI
The divide : a brief guide to global inequality and its solutions Jason Hickel - London : William Heinemann, c2017. - 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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. It’s a comforting tale and one that is endorsed by the world’s most powerful governments and corporations. But is it true?
Since 1960, the income gap between the North and South has roughly tripled in size. Today 4.3 billion people, 60 percent of the world's population, live on less than $5 per day. Some 1 billion live on less than $1 a day. The richest eight people now control the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world combined.
What is causing this growing divide? We are told that poverty is a natural phenomenon that can be fixed with aid. But in reality, it is a political problem: poverty doesn’t just exist; it has been created.
9781785151132
2017431238
Equality
Globalization
305 HI DI