B’s Reviews > The Divide > Status Update

So far, incredibly well written, clear and devastating. Hickel explains how fundamentally wrong the ‘story of development’, i.e. that of ‘developed’ countries and ‘developing’ ones at different places on a universal arrow of progress, is; that ‘aid’ is dwarfed on a huge scale by the flow of money and resources from the Global South to the North; and how ‘free markets’ have been violently imposed.