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Join author Jason Hickel and guests for a discussion on The Divide - a provocative, urgent and ultimately uplifting account of how the world works, and how it can change for the better. The discussion will explore the reality that poor countries are poor because they are integrated into the global economic system on unequal terms, and that aid only helps to hide this.
The richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined.
Today, 60 per cent of the world’s population lives on less than $5 a day.
Though global real GDP has nearly tripled since 1980, 1.1 billion more people are now living in poverty.
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Dr. Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is Associate Editor of the journal World Development, and serves on the Statistical Advisory Panel for the UN Human Development Report 2020, the advisory board of the Green New Deal for Europe, and the Harvard-Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice.
Jason's research focuses on global inequality, political economy, post-development, and ecological economics, which are the subjects of his two most recent books: The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Penguin, 2017), and Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Penguin, 2020).
Robert Knox is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Social Justice University of Liverpool and is an Editor of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory and the London Review of International Law. His research research analyses the interconnections between imperialism, processes of racialisation and international institutions.
Chaired by Becka Hudson who is a researcher and campaigner on criminal justice issues.