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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,239 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 75 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,706 ratings — published 2006
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 — 8,073 ratings — published 2007
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,247 ratings — published 1999
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,409 ratings — published 2009
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,302 ratings — published 2005
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,961 ratings — published 2008
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,578 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 — 4,899 ratings — published 2003
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,510 ratings — published 1991
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,573 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 — 359,587 ratings — published 2006
Globalization and its Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,306 ratings — published 2002
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 474,251 ratings — published 1997
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,002 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 3.96 — 1,178 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 — 7,183 ratings — published 2009
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,390 ratings — published 2014
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,489 ratings — published 2013
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,336 ratings — published 1971
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,465 ratings — published 2000
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,663 ratings — published 2001
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 15,233 ratings — published 2019
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,485 ratings — published 1998
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,234 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 — 119,563 ratings — published 2012
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,393 ratings — published 2004
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,533 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 4.07 — 33,643 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 — 7,065 ratings — published 2009
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,200 ratings — published 1998
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,946 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 — 765 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 — 1,898 ratings — published 2013
Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.80 — 993 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 — 14,153 ratings — published 2003
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 — 14,265 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 — 2,188 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 — 615 ratings — published 2008
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,566 ratings — published 2007
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.05 — 518 ratings — published 1994
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,500 ratings — published 2013
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,176 ratings — published 1968
The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,476 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 3.98 — 1,918 ratings — published 1997
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,100 ratings — published 2007
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 815,136 ratings — published 1998
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.61 — 4,239 ratings — published 2017
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,226 ratings — published 2014
The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as international-development)
avg rating 3.78 — 474 ratings — published 2009
“Extreme poverty isn’t just an African issue or an Asian issue or a South American issue. It is a global issue. Before flying overseas to help relieve poverty abroad, consider the poverty in your own backyard.
Every country on every continent has people impacted by poverty—whether it is relative or absolute. Bringing extreme poverty down to zero will take more trial and error, more methods, more innovation, and more communication. Most importantly, it will take more trust—the trust that people are aware of their problems and are creative enough to solve them when given the right resources. People need opportunities, connections, and education to learn more about life’s possibilities, not handouts, performative sympathy, and empty promises.”
― Uplift and Empower: A Guide To Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation
Every country on every continent has people impacted by poverty—whether it is relative or absolute. Bringing extreme poverty down to zero will take more trial and error, more methods, more innovation, and more communication. Most importantly, it will take more trust—the trust that people are aware of their problems and are creative enough to solve them when given the right resources. People need opportunities, connections, and education to learn more about life’s possibilities, not handouts, performative sympathy, and empty promises.”
― Uplift and Empower: A Guide To Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation
“It is a tragedy, at rate at which EBOLA VIRUS is spreading in West Africa. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.”
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