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International Development Books
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,030 ratings — published 2007
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,767 ratings — published 2011
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,682 ratings — published 2006
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,341 ratings — published 2009
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,167 ratings — published 1999
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,263 ratings — published 2005
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,792 ratings — published 2008
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 65,026 ratings — published 2012
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,872 ratings — published 2003
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,443 ratings — published 1991
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,623 ratings — published 2003
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,090 ratings — published 2006
Globalization and its Discontents (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,239 ratings — published 2002
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 464,699 ratings — published 1997
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 999 ratings — published 2011
Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,174 ratings — published 2009
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,149 ratings — published 2009
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,383 ratings — published 2014
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,796 ratings — published 1971
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,479 ratings — published 2013
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,425 ratings — published 2000
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,653 ratings — published 2001
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,995 ratings — published 2019
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,218 ratings — published 1997
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,098 ratings — published 2012
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,130 ratings — published 1998
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,389 ratings — published 2004
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,483 ratings — published 2002
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 33,028 ratings — published 2009
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,944 ratings — published 2009
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 37,447 ratings — published 1998
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,926 ratings — published 1999
The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 762 ratings — published 2012
The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,886 ratings — published 2013
Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.80 — 974 ratings — published 2011
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,972 ratings — published 2003
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,472 ratings — published 2013
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,125 ratings — published 2009
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,186 ratings — published 2013
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail (BK Currents Book)
by (shelved 10 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 613 ratings — published 2008
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,941 ratings — published 2014
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.05 — 514 ratings — published 1994
The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,441 ratings — published 2008
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,914 ratings — published 1997
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,511 ratings — published 2007
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,050 ratings — published 2017
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,073 ratings — published 2007
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,029 ratings — published 1968
The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.79 — 468 ratings — published 2009
Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.86 — 859 ratings — published 2009
“Working closely with recipients and understanding the needs of others requires a level of trust, credibility, and closeness that community leaders are best positioned to develop.
Community leaders can serve as mentors, communicators, and friends who represent the values and priorities most important to the populations they support.
At this level of giving, customizing aid to the specific needs of individuals becomes a natural byproduct of the types of relationships formed.”
― Uplift and Empower: A Guide To Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation
Community leaders can serve as mentors, communicators, and friends who represent the values and priorities most important to the populations they support.
At this level of giving, customizing aid to the specific needs of individuals becomes a natural byproduct of the types of relationships formed.”
― Uplift and Empower: A Guide To Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation
“Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God's mysterious designs.”
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