The Divide
by Jason Hickel
Global inequality as a product of colonialism, debt and trade rules, not a natural gap. Hickel's challenge to the development story.
Read it if…
you want a critique of the aid-and-development narrative.
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Skip it if…
you want Progress by Norberg; read both.
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Three things you will actually use
- History made the gap.
- Rules keep it.
- Read the counterargument too.
Do this first
Read the chapter on debt.
Our verdict
Hickel's Divide.
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