false 33513 5 <B>From one of the world's best-known development economists&#151;an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world</B> <P> In his previous book, <I>The Elusive Quest for Growth</I>, 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. <I>The White Man's Burden</I> is his widely anticipated counterpunch&#151;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. 304529 27 2 2007 The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good total:508|5:95|4:231|3:147|2:30|1:5| 508 1905 1228 103 3 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 19:44:04 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 20:37:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 21 13:48:52 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 21 13:58:16 -0700 2007 www.foreignaffairs.org/2006030......more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 21:18:48 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 31 09:37:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 2 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 22:23:40 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 01:52:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 08 13:02:58 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 13:08:58 -0800 2008
His overarching point seems in general to hold...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Feb 20 19:29:16 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 20 14:56:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 20 05:38:11 -0800 2008 Fri Sep 26 18:58:23 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 20 05:38:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 05 13:50:50 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 10 04:05:51 -0700 2009 Guns, Germs and Steel. That first book examined why the Rest ended up so poor, while this statistic-heavy ye...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 11 13:50:04 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 14:00:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jun 22 16:03:42 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 18 13:18:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 07:10:54 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 15:45:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 true false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 03:22:22 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 13:24:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 15 12:11:05 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 03 09:53:01 -0800 2008 The road to hell is paved with good intentions the old adage goes and pretty much sums up William Easterly's conjecture in The White Man's Burden. Easterly, an economist specializing in economic growth and foreign aid, is skeptical of the Utopian Planners that are involved in foreign aid. The book h...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 21 03:47:09 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 03:47:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 14:15:24 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 14:22:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 15 08:20:04 -0700 2007 Tue May 15 16:24:00 -0700 2007
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