White Man's Burden Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

Name: 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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ISBN: 9780143038825

ISBN-10: 0143038826

ISBN-13: 9780143038825

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Authors: William Easterly

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From one of the worlds best-known development economistsan excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the Wests 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 Mans Burdenis his widely anticipated counterpuncha brilliant and blistering indictment of the Wests economic policies for the worlds 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…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.38" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English