6/19/2023 0 Comments The divide hickel![]() ![]() Only then will we have a chance at a world built on equal footing. Hickel proposes dramatic action rooted in real justice: we must abolish debt burdens in the developing world democratize the IMF, World Bank, and WTO and institute a global minimum wage, among many other vital steps. Global inequality doesn't just exist it has been created. Global poverty?and the growing divide between developing and developed countries?has to do with how the global economy has been designed over the course of five hundred years through conquest, colonialism, regime change, debt, and trade deals. He is originally from Eswatini (Swaziland) and spent a number of years with migrant workers in South Africa, writing about exploitation and political resistance in the wake of apartheid. on Hickel argues that this approach misses the broader political forces at play. Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. ![]() The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right, combined with aid from rich countries. In the face of ecological crisis, the world-historical task of the working classes and social movements is to reclaim democratic control over production and organize it around human well-being, ecology, and decolonization. ![]() Sixty percent of humanity?some 4.3 billion people?live in debilitating poverty. The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets ![]()
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