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The White Man's Burden : Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
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
An informed and excoriating 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. — William Easterly's The White Man's Burden is about what its author calls the twin tragedies of global poverty. The first, of...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781594200373
ISBN-10: 1594200378
Publication Date: 3/16/2006
Pages: 448
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Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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"The White Man's Burden is about what William Easterly calls the twin tragedies of global poverty. The first is that so many are seemingly fated to live horribly stunted miserable lives and die such early deaths. The second is that after fifty years and more than $2.3 trillion in aid from the West addressing the first tragedy, there is so shocklingly little to show from it. We'll never solve the first tragedy, William Easterly argues, unless we figure out the second"
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