Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty

A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment

Over the past two decades, experiments in neoliberal economics have opened up a chasm of inequality between the Global South and the West. Development advice from richer nations has led to social upheaval, political unrest, environmental degradation—and even the creation of a new underclass. Brutal extremes of wealth and poverty are now commonplace.

Ali A. Allawi traces ...