Development Aid


Out of Poverty: And Into Something More Comfortable
Under Development: A journey without maps
Damned Nations by Samantha Nutt (2012-02-16)
The Gardener of Lashkar Gah: The Afghans who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban
Not One, Not Even One: A Memoir of Life-Altering Experiences in Sierra Leone, West Africa
Canada's Global Villagers: CUSO in Development, 1961-86
Bill Bryson's African Diary
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
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
The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working
Tell Me Why You Fled: True Stories of Seeking Refuge
Nina Munk
I know that if you spend enough on each person person in a village, you will change their lives. If you put in enough resources-enough mzungu,foreigners, technical assistance, and money-lives change. I know that....The problem is, when you walk, what happens? -Simon Bland
Nina Munk, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

Nina Munk
What can we do? We cannot enforce. We try to explain. We want to empower. But no one can come and change them if they do not want themselves -Ahmed Maalim Mohamed
Nina Munk, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

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