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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 — 65,022 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 — 359,089 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 — 464,692 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 — 118,097 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 — 1,482 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 — 37,446 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 — 14,124 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 — 195,510 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 — 4,048 ratings — published 2017
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,070 ratings — published 2007
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as international-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,027 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
“Liang Qichao came away disappointed. American democracy seemed to spawn "mediocre politicians, corruption, disorder, racism, imperialism". "In short," noted the late J K Fairbank, most prolific and influential of America's sinologists, "he got our number, and it turned him off.”
― China: A History
― China: A History
“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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