Aid


Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Lords of Poverty
Gray Mountain
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War (African Arguments)
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Reinventing Foreign Aid (Mit Press)
War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherEmergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures)  by Kenneth CainYippie Girl by Judy GumboNo Dancing, No Dancing by Denis Dragovic
Civil Conflict
19 books — 20 voters
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
223 books — 208 voters

Little Princes by Conor GrennanBetween Inca Walls, A Peace Corps Memoir by Evelyn Kohl LaTorreRiver Town by Peter HesslerMonique and the Mango Rains by Kris HollowayThe Color of the Elephant by Christine  Herbert
Volunteers - Memoirs
74 books — 24 voters

Martin Luther King Jr.
The aid program that I am suggesting must not be used by the wealthy nations as a surreptitious means to control the poor nations. Such an approach would lead to a new form of paternalism and a neocolonialism which no self-respecting nation could accept. Ultimately, foreign aid programs must be motivated by a compassionate and committed effort to wipe poverty, ignorance and disease from the face of the earth. Money devoid of genuine empathy is like salt devoid of savor, good for nothing except t ...more
Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Criss Jami
In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.
Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

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