Description
| Product ID: | 9781786090034 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Divide |
| Subtitle: | A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions |
| Authors: | Author: Jason Hickel |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Development studies, Development studies, Poverty and precarity, Social discrimination and social justice, International economics, Development economics and emerging economies, Poverty & unemployment, Social discrimination & inequality, International economics, Development economics & emerging economies, Developing countries, Industrialized / developed countries |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating ________________'There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all.' - Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics· The richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined. · Today, 60 per cent of the world's population lives on less than $5 a day. · Though global real GDP has nearly tripled since 1980, 1.1 billion more people are now living in poverty. For decades we have been told a story: that development is working, that poverty is a natural phenomenon and will be eradicated through aid by 2030. But just because it is a comforting tale doesn't make it true. Poor countries are poor because they are integrated into the global economic system on unequal terms, and aid only helps to hide this. Drawing on pioneering research and years of first-hand experience, The Divide tracks the evolution of global inequality - from the expeditions of Christopher Columbus to the present day - offering revelatory answers to some of humanity's greatest problems. It is a provocative, urgent and ultimately uplifting account of how the world works, and how it can change for the better. ________________ |
| Imprint Name: | Windmill Books |
| Publisher Name: | Cornerstone |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-05-17 |
