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World Development Books
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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,424 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)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,711 ratings — published 2006
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,307 ratings — published 2005
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,703 ratings — published 2017
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 4.35 — 208,164 ratings — published 2018
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,313 ratings — published 2011
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,519 ratings — published 1991
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,080 ratings — published 2007
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,256 ratings — published 1999
The Approaching Great Transformation: Creating a New Commonwealth for the End of the Oil Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.62 — 21 ratings — published 2013
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,673,899 ratings — published 2015
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,502 ratings — published 2013
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,364 ratings — published 2013
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,213 ratings — published 2012
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,653 ratings — published 2015
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.14 — 22,515 ratings — published 2013
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,983 ratings — published 2010
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,235 ratings — published 1997
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,566 ratings — published 2020
Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.78 — 890 ratings — published 2015
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,688 ratings — published 2013
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.33 — 767 ratings — published 1991
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,939 ratings — published 2018
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,387 ratings — published 2019
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.40 — 190,303 ratings — published 2010
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,792 ratings — published 2012
The Shackled Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 611 ratings — published 2004
The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 932 ratings — published 2014
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,167 ratings — published 1973
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,226 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 6,724 ratings — published 2005
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 125,136 ratings — published 1859
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,782 ratings — published 2018
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,726 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.48 — 856,454 ratings — published 2016
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,490 ratings — published 2013
The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 769 ratings — published 2012
Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,181 ratings — published 2009
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,470 ratings — published 2000
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,975 ratings — published 2008
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,919 ratings — published 2008
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,733 ratings — published 2004
صناعة الجوع: خرافة الندرة (عالم المعرفة، #64)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.97 — 435 ratings — published 1980
Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.29 — 701 ratings — published 2014
The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 43 ratings — published 2015
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,632 ratings — published 2014
China Goes Global: The Partial Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 414 ratings — published 2013
Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.58 — 596 ratings — published 2012
The Future of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,197 ratings — published 2010
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,935 ratings — published 2008
“There has never been a ‘race’ until now, and this latest hype is driven I believe by greed, and power hungry nations.”
― The Dumb Dumb's Handbook - To Artificial Intelligence: And It's Part in Your Downfall
― The Dumb Dumb's Handbook - To Artificial Intelligence: And It's Part in Your Downfall
“When the world is to come to it's final destruction the powerful will always reason of peaceful nuclear programs which in my own words is a shameful chapter to start when the world has already been destroyed.”
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