It is a provocative, urgent and ultimately uplifting account of how the world works, and how it can change for the better. 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.

Poor countries are poor because they are integrated into the global economic system on unequal terms, and aid only helps to hide this. Global inequality is not natural or inevitable, and it is certainly not accidental. 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. In this Viewsnight, anthropologist Jason Hickel argues that our addiction to economic growth is killing us and makes the case for planned de-growth.

* Today, 60 per cent of the world's population lives on less than $5 a day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography and culture. More than four billion peoplesome 60 percent of humanitylive in debilitating poverty, on less than 5 per 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. by Jason Hickel (Author) Global inequality doesn’t just exist it has been created. Sixty percent of humanitysome 4.3 billion peoplelive in debilitating poverty. _ 'There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history.

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