The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The White Man's Burden A professor of economics pens an informed and excoriating attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, and provides constructive suggestions on how to move forward.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin USA
- Published: 01 March 2007
- Format: Paperback 436 pages
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- Categories: Development Studies | Poverty & Unemployment | International Relations | International Economics | Development Economics | Political Economy
- ISBN 13: 9780143038825 ISBN 10: 0143038826
- Sales rank: 43,565
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Full description for The White Man's Burden
From 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 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.
