the divide a brief guide to global inequality

nearly everybody) should read this book to understand why we all have a responsibility to better serve our fellow human beings.

Journalists, aid workers and anybody who has ever given aid (i.e. Why hasn't global poverty and hunger really declined in the last decades? A combination of NGO and government obfuscation, denial and wishful thinking is not helping the world's most vulnerable but marking them as numbers. Jason Hickel rightly challenges this dangerous myth with a book that crackles with facts, indignation and heart. Full of explosive information and devastating argument, The Divide is essential reading.' - Raoul Martinez, author of Creating Freedom 'We all like to think of aid and development as benign in a world full of inequality and violence. He shows that colonialism has not disappeared, only changed form. Poor countries are made poor by this but a dramatic change is coming.' - Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% 'Jason Hickel tears apart the destructive myths surrounding global inequality. The West has controlled the rest through colonization, coups, trade and debt. This book will radically change the way in which you understand the workings of the global economic system and the challenges faced by poor countries trying to advance within it.' - Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism and Economics: The User's Guide 'With passion and panache, Jason Hickel tells a very different story of why poverty exists, what progress is, and who we are. Many of the proposals that Hickel makes for institutional reform and intellectual re-framing may sound 'mad', as he himself acknowledges, but history has taught us that mad ideas have the habit of becoming respectable over time.

He not only exposes the fatal flaws in the standard model of development but also shows how the 'development aid' given to the poor countries in order to promote that erroneous model is vastly outweighed by the resource transferred to the rich countries through an unfair global economic system. 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 'In this iconoclastic book, Jason Hickel shakes up the prevailing paradigm of 'development' at its root. 'There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history.

The divide a brief guide to global inequality