White Mans Burden : Why the Wests Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

English

ISBN: 0143038826

EAN: 9780143038825

Category: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy/Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 03/02/2007

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: 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 worldIn 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 Burdenis 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.

White Mans Burden : Why the Wests Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

Illustrated: Yes

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 1.2 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.5 inches

Weight: 12.84 oz

Pages: 448