Chandler Webster’s Reviews > The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions > Status Update

“They were remote and unreachable, insulated from the cries of the displaced in the streets, invulnerable to any political pressure from below. And that was precisely how it was meant to work.”

“Today, British apologists defend colonialism in India and intervention in China on the basis that it brought 'development' to these regions. But the evidence we have suggests exactly the opposite story. It was the colonial period of forced market integration that inaugurated the 'development gap' between Britain and Asia.”

“Poor countries don’t need our aid; they need us to stop impoverishing them. Until we target the structural drivers of global poverty - the underlying architecture of wealth extraction and accumulation - development efforts will continue to fail, decade after decade.”