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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... Success. Let's call the advocates of the traditional approach the Planners, while we call the agents for change in the alternative approach the Searchers. The short answer on why dying poor children don't get twelve-cent medicines, while ...
... Success. Let's call the advocates of the traditional approach the Planners, while we call the agents for change in the alternative approach the Searchers. The short answer on why dying poor children don't get twelve-cent medicines, while ...
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... Success in ending the poverty trap,” Sachs writes in the book, “will be much easier than it appears.” But if rich people want to help the poor, they must face an unpleasant reality: If it's so easy to end the poverty trap, why haven't ...
... Success in ending the poverty trap,” Sachs writes in the book, “will be much easier than it appears.” But if rich people want to help the poor, they must face an unpleasant reality: If it's so easy to end the poverty trap, why haven't ...
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... success does not come from setting a prefixed goal and then furiously laboring to reach it. Rather, successful businessmen are Searchers, looking for any opportunity to make a profit by satisfying the customers. They evaluate the chance ...
... success does not come from setting a prefixed goal and then furiously laboring to reach it. Rather, successful businessmen are Searchers, looking for any opportunity to make a profit by satisfying the customers. They evaluate the chance ...
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... successful Searchers have to be close to the customers at the bottom, rather than surveying the world from the top. Consumers tell the firm that “this product is worth the price” by buying it, or they decide the product is worthless and ...
... successful Searchers have to be close to the customers at the bottom, rather than surveying the world from the top. Consumers tell the firm that “this product is worth the price” by buying it, or they decide the product is worthless and ...
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... success in ending the poverty trap will be much easier than it appears” (p. 289) “to do things piecemeal is vacuous” (Washington Post, March 27, 2005) “Even more to the point, success in any single area, whether in health, or education ...
... success in ending the poverty trap will be much easier than it appears” (p. 289) “to do things piecemeal is vacuous” (Washington Post, March 27, 2005) “Even more to the point, success in any single area, whether in health, or education ...
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 |
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So ... William Easterly No preview available - 2006 |
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