The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little GoodFrom 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. "Brilliant at diagnosing the failings of Western intervention in the Third World." —BusinessWeek 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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... World Bank for over sixteen years. In addition to his academic work, he has written widely in recent years for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and ...
... World Bank for over sixteen years. In addition to his academic work, he has written widely in recent years for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and ...
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... World Bank, the spread of the knowledge of capitalism and democracy, scientific interventions to cure disease, nationbuilding, neo-imperialism, and military intervention. Both the Right and the Left participate in this effort. Who is ...
... World Bank, the spread of the knowledge of capitalism and democracy, scientific interventions to cure disease, nationbuilding, neo-imperialism, and military intervention. Both the Right and the Left participate in this effort. Who is ...
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... World Bank, regional development banks, national aid agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the United Nations agencies. At first, these agencies called for the planning of poor countries ...
... World Bank, regional development banks, national aid agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the United Nations agencies. At first, these agencies called for the planning of poor countries ...
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... World Bank–sponsored comprehensive reforms called “structural adjustment.” Military intervention to overthrow evil dictators and remake other societies into some reflection of Western democratic capitalism is the extreme of contemporary ...
... World Bank–sponsored comprehensive reforms called “structural adjustment.” Military intervention to overthrow evil dictators and remake other societies into some reflection of Western democratic capitalism is the extreme of contemporary ...
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... world, looking toward the ultimate day... when foreign aid will no longer be needed.” Implementing this crusade brought an alphabet soup of agencies created after World War II: the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank ... Bank (IDB) ...
... world, looking toward the ultimate day... when foreign aid will no longer be needed.” Implementing this crusade brought an alphabet soup of agencies created after World War II: the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank ... Bank (IDB) ...
Contents
CHAPTER THREE You Cant Plan a Market | |
CHAPTER FOUR Planners and Gangsters | |
CHAPTER FIVE The Rich Have Markets the Poor Have Bureaucrats | |
CHAPTER SIX Bailing Out the Poor | |
Triumph and Tragedy | |
CHAPTEREIGHT From Colonialism to Postmodern Imperialism | |
CHAPTER NINE Invading the Poor | |
CHAPTER TEN Homegrown Development | |
CHAPTERELEVEN The Future of Western Assistance | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
INDEX | |
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So ... William Easterly No preview available - 2007 |
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