The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good Paperback - 2007
by William Easterly
A professor of economics pens an informed and excoriating attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, and provides constructive suggestions on how to move forward.
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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 Burden is 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 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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UNITED KINGDOM CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer Gordon Brown is eloquent about one of the two tragedies of the world's poor.
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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 William Easterly
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date February 27, 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780143038825 / 0143038826
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.56 x 0.98 in (21.34 x 14.12 x 2.49 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Developing World
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Development Studies
- Library of Congress subjects Economic assistance - Developing countries, Poverty - Prevention
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.911
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Citations
- Books & Culture, 09/01/2014, Page 32
- Christianity Today, 04/01/2011, Page 64
- New York Times, 04/01/2007, Page 24
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