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Vijay Prashad, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South

The Poorer Nations takes up the story from the OPEC price hike in 1973, alongside the New International Economic Order (NIEO) debate of that year and the formation of the G7 the following year, through to the defeat of the Third World Project, to the formation of the BRICS group and the transformations in the South from below—including the Bolivarian initiative and the Arab Spring. It fills in the story left hanging at the end of The Darker Nations.

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