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Sixty percent of mankind - some four-point-three billion people - reside in debilitating poverty. The typical development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right, combined with aid from wealthy countries. But anthropologist Jason Hickel argues that this strategy misses the broader politics makes at play. Global poverty - and the growing divide between "encouraging" and "developed" countries - is due to how the global economy has been designed during the period of 500 years through conquest, colonialism, program change, debt, and trade offers. Global inequality doesn't just exist; it's been created. To close the divide, Dr. Hickel proposes remarkable action rooted in real justice: we should abolish debt burdens in the producing world; democratize the IMF, World Loan provider, and WTO; and institute a global minimum wage, among many other essential steps. Only then will we have a chance at a world built on similar footing.
