Inequality and poverty arose by design, not chance and stories of human rights abuses and failures in development have deep roots. Here, Prof Benjamin Selwyn recommends key non-fiction texts to help unravel some global complexitiesOne of the key questions in development is, can all countries become rich, and if so, how? Rostow, a US academic and adviser to JFK, rising to national security adviser to President Lyndon Johnson in the mid 1960s, said they can. Continue reading...