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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... villages and Communist five-year plans to industrialize in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Ironically, social engineering surfaced again as “shock therapy” in the transition from communism (after the five-year plans had failed) to ...
... villages and Communist five-year plans to industrialize in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Ironically, social engineering surfaced again as “shock therapy” in the transition from communism (after the five-year plans had failed) to ...
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... village of Okpuje, in southeastern Nigeria. Chinwe's widowed mother cut his schooling short so he could contribute to the family income from farm jobs and harvesting oil palm. Besides oil palm, Okpuje also produces cassava, yam, and ...
... village of Okpuje, in southeastern Nigeria. Chinwe's widowed mother cut his schooling short so he could contribute to the family income from farm jobs and harvesting oil palm. Besides oil palm, Okpuje also produces cassava, yam, and ...
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... rhythms of drums in nearby villages and surf on the nearby coast. My father is a biology professor at the University College of Cape Coast, Ghana, part of the American program to lend knowledge to the development of Africa.
... rhythms of drums in nearby villages and surf on the nearby coast. My father is a biology professor at the University College of Cape Coast, Ghana, part of the American program to lend knowledge to the development of Africa.
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... village of mud huts with thatched roofs. My traveling companion knows the chief of Mprumem, who curiously enough is a Ghanaian immigrant to the United States, working as a university professor in Akron, Ohio. He spends part of every ...
... village of mud huts with thatched roofs. My traveling companion knows the chief of Mprumem, who curiously enough is a Ghanaian immigrant to the United States, working as a university professor in Akron, Ohio. He spends part of every ...
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... village is deep in a darkness that few Western urbanites could imagine. The Milky Way is visible in the sky overhead. Walking along the main street of the village, I try not to bump into other walkers in the darkness. A little light ...
... village is deep in a darkness that few Western urbanites could imagine. The Milky Way is visible in the sky overhead. Walking along the main street of the village, I try not to bump into other walkers in the darkness. A little light ...
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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