The white man's burden : why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good / William Easterly.
2006
338.911713 E13w 2006
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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 / William Easterly.
Author
Easterly, William, 1957-
ISBN
1594200378 (hardcover)
Imprint
New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
Language
English
Description
436 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
9781594200373
Call Number
338.911713 E13w 2006
System Control No.
(OCoLC)62326881
Summary
An attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to date to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, with constructive suggestions on how to move forward. Economist Easterly discusses the twin tragedies of global poverty: the first, that so many are seemingly fated to live miserable lives and die early deaths; the second, that after fifty years and more than $2.3 trillion in aid, we have shockingly little to show for it. We preach a gospel of freedom and individual accountability, yet we intrude in the inner workings of other countries through bloated aid bureaucracies--and most of the places in which we've meddled are in fact no better off or are even worse off than they were before. Could it be that we don't know as much as we think we do?--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Planners versus searchers
WHY PLANNERS CANNOT BRING PROSPERITY: The legend of the big push
You can't plan a market
Planners and gangsters
PART II: ACTING OUT THE BURDEN: The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats
Bailing out the poor
The healers: triumph and tragedy
PART III; THE WHITE MAN'S ARMY: From colonialism to postmodern imperialism
Invading the poor
PART IV: THE FUTURE: Homegrown development
The future of Western assistance.
WHY PLANNERS CANNOT BRING PROSPERITY: The legend of the big push
You can't plan a market
Planners and gangsters
PART II: ACTING OUT THE BURDEN: The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats
Bailing out the poor
The healers: triumph and tragedy
PART III; THE WHITE MAN'S ARMY: From colonialism to postmodern imperialism
Invading the poor
PART IV: THE FUTURE: Homegrown development
The future of Western assistance.
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