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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 8,316 ratings — published 2009
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 5,677 ratings — published 2006
Lords of Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 393 ratings — published 1994
Gray Mountain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 109,575 ratings — published 2014
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 7,939 ratings — published 2015
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
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avg rating 4.08 — 4,668 ratings — published 2004
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 8,016 ratings — published 2007
Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 3,113 ratings — published 2013
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.62 — 3,990 ratings — published 2017
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 89,181 ratings — published 2003
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War (African Arguments)
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avg rating 3.78 — 240 ratings — published 2005
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 445 ratings — published 2002
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 10,429 ratings — published 1991
Reinventing Foreign Aid (Mit Press)
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avg rating 3.80 — 44 ratings — published 2008
War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 306 ratings — published 2010
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,469 ratings — published 2013
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 24,596 ratings — published 2011
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,843 ratings — published 2015
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 6,918 ratings — published 2009
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,283 ratings — published 2008
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 14,076 ratings — published 2009
Aid and Other Dirty Business: How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 245 ratings — published 2007
Does Foreign Aid Really Work? (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 81 ratings — published 2007
Wilderness First Responder: How to Recognize, Treat, and Prevent Emergencies in the Backcountry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 96 ratings — published 1998
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 4,036 ratings — published 1891
The Emergency Survival Manual: 294 Life-Saving Skills (Outdoor Life)
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avg rating 4.04 — 52 ratings — published 2015
Why Africa is Poor: And What Africans Can Do About It (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 94 ratings — published 2010
Advocacy in Conflict: Critical Perspectives on Transnational Activism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 2015
Undermining Development: The Absence of Power Among Local NGOs in Africa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2004
Decolonising the University (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 111 ratings — published
The Event of Postcolonial Shame (Translation/Transnation)
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avg rating 4.17 — 23 ratings — published 2010
Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression and Pain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 96 ratings — published
The Golden Fleece: Manipulation and Independence in Humanitarian Action (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2012
Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, Or Mooching Off My Parents (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 541 ratings — published 2010
African Literary NGOs: Power, Politics, and Participation (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2013
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 223,279 ratings — published 2025
Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting its Role (Priorities for Development Economics)
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avg rating 3.60 — 10 ratings — published 2005
The Rise and Fall of Public–Private Partnerships: Finance, Infrastructure and Developing Countries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
José Feeds the World: How a Famous Chef Feeds Millions of People in Need around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 206 ratings — published
The World Bank: Its First Half Century, Vol. I & II (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1997
Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 23 ratings — published
Development Projects Observed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 30 ratings — published 1967
Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top-Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published
یک عاشقانهی آرام (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 6,304 ratings — published 1997
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 94,170 ratings — published 2015
The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (Meridian-Crossing Aesthetics)
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avg rating 4.08 — 446 ratings — published 1992
Doctor Meow's Big Emergency (Whoops-a-Daisy World Series)
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avg rating 3.65 — 104 ratings — published 2007
Theirs Is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 524 ratings — published 1989
Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 369 ratings — published 2007
“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.”
― Venus in Arms
― Venus in Arms
“In procurement for humanitarian assistance, optimization is achieved when goods and services offering value for money are purchased and delivered within good time to aid people in need at quantity volumes which ensure economies of scale at prices that maximize reach to beneficiaries.”
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