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In November 2020, David Evans, a development economist at the Center for Global Development tweeted about a book club on international development that he has been organising since the past few years. He also shared the reading list of the group. This is the GR version of the list of books as on 23-Nov-20. For more information on David Evans: https://www.sites.google.com/site/dav... and on the book club: https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wi...
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Homegoing
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Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
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Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
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Ali and Nino
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Americanah
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author)
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The Leopard
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
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Shokoofeh Azar (Goodreads Author)
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
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Silence of the Chagos
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Beirut Hellfire Society
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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
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Adventures in Dystopia
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Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not)
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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
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Claire of the Sea Light
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The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
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Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
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The Memory of Love
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
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Museveni's Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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Barbara Demick (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 98,751 ratings
score: 77,
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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
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Sendhil Mullainathan (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 7,417 ratings
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Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
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Sunil Yapa (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 7,179 ratings
score: 74,
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