Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
The gap between rich and poor countries remains one of the most striking facts about the world today. Globalization promised that living standards would draw closer, but the differences in wealth between nations are still enormous.
Recent history is not all dark, though. Extreme poverty has retreated faster over the past thirty years than ever before. This course looks at the roots of these inequalities, and at the reasons for that strange paradox.
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- 2A two-speed world
- 3Historical roots that are still alive
- 4Real progress, unevenly shared
- 5Climate, the new fault line
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary9 terms explained in a tap.
30 languagesThe same course, from French to Japanese.
