The divide : a brief guide to global inequality and its solutions
By: Hickel, Jason
Material type: BookPublisher: London : William Heinemann, c2017.Description: 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781785151132Subject(s): Equality | GlobalizationDDC classification: 305 HI DI Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 305 HI DI (Browse shelf) | Available | April2019 | T0062039 |
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305.69709051 SH MU Muslims of the world : | 305 BA CO Collateral damage : | 305 CL EQ The equal opportunities handbook : | 305 HI DI The divide : | 305 MI GL Global inequality : | 305 OX FO The Oxford handbook of multicultural identity / | 305 WI SP The spirit level : |
Includes bibliographical references.
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.