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The End of Development - A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity (Paperback)
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The End of Development - A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity (Paperback)
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Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor? Human
history unfolded differently across the globe. The world is
separated in to places of poverty and prosperity. Tracing the long
arc of human history from hunter gatherer societies to the early
twenty first century in an argument grounded in a deep
understanding of geography, Andrew Brooks rejects popular
explanations for the divergence of nations. This accessible and
illuminating volume shows how the wealth of 'the West' and poverty
of 'the rest' stem not from environmental factors or some unique
European cultural, social or technological qualities, but from the
expansion of colonialism and the rise of America. Brooks puts the
case that international inequality was moulded by capitalist
development over the last 500 years. After the Second World War,
international aid projects failed to close the gap between
'developed' and 'developing' nations and millions remain
impoverished. Rather than address the root causes of inequality,
overseas development assistance exacerbate the problems of an
uneven world by imposing crippling debts and destructive neoliberal
policies on poor countries. But this flawed form of development is
now coming to an end, as the emerging economies of Asia and Africa
begin to assert themselves on the world stage. The End of
Development provides a compelling account of how human history
unfolded differently in varied regions of the world. Brooks argues
that we must now seize the opportunity afforded by today's changing
economic geography to transform attitudes towards inequality and to
develop radical new approaches to addressing global poverty, as the
alternative is to accept that impoverishment is somehow part of the
natural order of things.
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