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.
Bok Engelsk 2006 William Russell. Easterly,· Electronic books
| Utgitt | New York : : Penguin Press, , 2006.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (436 p. ) : ill. ;
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| Opplysninger | Planners versus searchers -- Why planners cannot bring prosperity -- The legend of the big push -- You can't plan a market -- Planners and gangsters -- Acting out the burden -- The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats -- Bailing out the poor -- The healers : triumph and tragedy -- The white man's army -- From colonialism to postmodern imperialism -- Invading the poor -- The future -- Homegrown development -- The future of Western assistance.. - 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
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| ISBN | 1-101-21812-6
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