![]() Poor countries are poor because they are integrated into the global economic system on unequal terms, and aid only helps to hide this. But just because it is a comforting tale doesn't make it true. 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. * Though global real GDP has nearly tripled since 1980, 1.1 billion more people are now living in poverty. ![]() * Today, 60 per cent of the world's population lives on less than $5 a day. ![]() 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. ![]() _ 'There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. ![]()
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