Prashad explains, with characteristic clarity, passion, and humor, how today’s stark division of richer and poorer countries came to be, and he tracks neoliberalism from its rise in the 1970s to its disastrous rule today.ĭefining neoliberalism broadly as “a fairly straightforward campaign by the propertied classes to maintain or restore their position of dominance,” Prashad details how the “Global North”-the wealthier, imperialist nations, led by Western Europe and the Unites States-came to dominate the rest of the world using a variety of policies, institutions, and tactics. Continuing Prashad’s narrative of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (2007), which discussed the period from the 1920s to the 1980s, The Poorer Nations tells the story of how the “Third World Project” of state-led development failed in the face of the neoliberal assault. Vijay Prashad’s The Poorer Nations provides a powerful and well-researched historical account of the “Global South,” to use the conventional term for formerly colonized nations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
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