Weighing up the costs and benefits of economic interdependence in a finance-driven world, this book argues that … globalization has been oversold to the Global South, and that the South should be as selective about globalization as the North …

as a 19th and 20th century world of “divergence big time”. Yet, some degree of global convergence does not adequately … capture a world where development inequalities are profound. Instead, while the over-arching binary framing of development is …