The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good
by William Easterly
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- 0199226113
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- 9780199226115
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From one of the worlds best-known development economistsan excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the Wests efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world 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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- Greener Books Ltd (GB)
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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
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used; Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 3
- ISBN 10
- 0199226113
- ISBN 13
- 9780199226115
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 09/27/2007
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