The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions

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Plunder in the Post-Colonial Era: Quantifying Drain from the Global South Through Unequal Exchange, 1960–2018 (2021, background): “Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.”
What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification (2020, background): “This was the approach pursued by most global South governments in the immediate post-colonial decades, during the 1960s and 1970s, before the imposition of neoliberal structural adjustment from the 1980s onward (Hickel, 2018b).”
The contradiction of the sustainable development goals: Growth versus ecology on a finite planet (2019, background): “Meaningful reductions in global inequality can be achieved by changing the rules of the world economy to make it fairer for developing countries (Hickel, 2017), for example by: 1.”
Getting soaked? Climate crisis, adaptation finance, and racialized austerity (2020, background): “Ideally, compensation would be compounded by the repatriation of capital stolen through colonialism and extorted through dizzyingly unfair terms of trade that continues today (Hickel, 2017).”
Is it possible to achieve a good life for all within planetary boundaries? (2018, background): “To cite this article: Jason Hickel (2018): Is it possible to achieve a good life for all within planetary boundaries?, Third World Quarterly, DOI: 10.”