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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 — 8,382 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 3.84 — 5,702 ratings — published 2006
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,284 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 — 16,170 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 — 205,809 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 — 25,035 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 — 10,479 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 — 8,047 ratings — published 2007
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,211 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 4.15 — 4,510,185 ratings — published 2015
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,487 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 — 5,247 ratings — published 2013
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,203 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 4.19 — 123,239 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 — 22,075 ratings — published 2013
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,888 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 — 3,226 ratings — published 1997
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,217 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 — 881 ratings — published 2015
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,615 ratings — published 2013
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.33 — 757 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 — 9,894 ratings — published 2018
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,227 ratings — published 2019
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.40 — 184,142 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 — 118,954 ratings — published 2012
The Shackled Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 610 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 — 924 ratings — published 2014
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,734 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 — 2,214 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 6,645 ratings — published 2005
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,126 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 — 4,717 ratings — published 2018
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,599 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.49 — 838,632 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 — 1,485 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 — 763 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 — 1,176 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 3.99 — 4,449 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 — 55,881 ratings — published 2008
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,470 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 — 4,708 ratings — published 2004
صناعة الجوع: خرافة الندرة (عالم المعرفة، #64)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.97 — 432 ratings — published 1980
Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.29 — 696 ratings — published 2014
The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.07 — 43 ratings — published 2015
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,445 ratings — published 2014
China Goes Global: The Partial Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 415 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 — 590 ratings — published 2012
The Future of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,190 ratings — published 2010
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,907 ratings — published 2008
“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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“How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it.”
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