The End of development : a global history of poverty and prosperity / Andrew Brooks

By:

Brooks, Andrew

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi : Zed Books, 2017Description: 286p. ; 22cmISBN:

9781786990204

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DDC classification:

339.46 BRO 22

Summary: This book 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. The author 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. The book provides a compelling account of how human history unfolded differently in varied regions of the world.

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This book 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. The author 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. The book provides a compelling account of how human history unfolded differently in varied regions of the world.

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