There's more to that in the post. Hickel also raises that e.g. the recent improvements are actually due primarily to China and East Asian tiger economies, which

There's more to that in the post. Hickel also raises that e.g. the recent improvements are actually due primarily to China and East Asian tiger economies, which have had protectionist policies; the rest of the South, by contrast, have seen a degradation of their poors' situation on a backdrop of neoliberal policies.