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The White Man's Burden - Why The West's Efforts To Aid The Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good

The White Man's Burden - Why The West's Efforts To Aid The Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good

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The White Man's Burden - Why The West's Efforts To Aid The Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good

by Easterly, William

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Oxford University Press, 2007. 1st thus.. Paperback. Paperback, F. [x]+380pp, tables, index, a fine copy. A study of the reasons why the Western World's attempts to help the poorest have failed.

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From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth , William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man’s Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch—a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West’s economic policies for the world’s poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous, Easterly argues that we in the West need to face our own history of ineptitude and draw the proper conclusions, especially at a time when the question of our ability to transplant Western institutions has become one of the most pressing issues we face.

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Title
The White Man's Burden - Why The West's Efforts To Aid The Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good
Author
Easterly, William
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Paperback
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1st thus.
ISBN 10
0199226113
ISBN 13
9780199226115
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Place of Publication
Oxford
Date Published
2007
Keywords
ISBN 9780199226115, africa, poverty, economics

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