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The Uses of Haiti
If you want to understand anything about Haiti, you must read this book. Paul Farmer is brilliant, simply brilliant, and this book takes us for an informative trip back in[…]
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Rural Development
This is a brilliant but slim work from Robert Chambers. Occasionally I stumble upon a text nearly as old as I am, sitting on someone’s shelf, out of print for[…]
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The End of Poverty
I’ve previously written about The White Man’s Burden, by William Easterly, and I consider this to be its companion volume. Easterly and Sachs are essentially competing economists, with Sachs playing[…]
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White Man’s Burden
While in Nigeria I had the opportunity to read William Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So[…]
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War Games
Linda Polman has somehow been writing for years, ever so quietly, about the glaring problems within the humanitarian aid industry. War Games, as the sub-title informs, is the story of[…]
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We Did Nothing
Linda Polman has somehow been writing for years, ever so quietly, about the glaring problems within the humanitarian aid industry. We Did Nothing tells the story of Haiti, Rwanda, and[…]
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman
John Perkins is not a talented writer. He’s an even worse human being. I don’t like him. His books, however, are informative, and should be read. Not because they are[…]
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Travesty in Haiti
This book is either the biggest fraud or the most honest accounting of corruption on development in Haiti that I’ve ever come across. The stories recounted within are so unbelievable[…]
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Dust from our Eyes
Joan Baxter is a journalist and anthropologist probably best known for her BBC World Service reporting from Africa. Her 2008 book, Dust from our Eyes, came to my attention after[…]