The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Re

ISBN: 0143038826

Author: Easterly, William

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From one of the worlds best-known development economists-an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the Wests efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world."Brilliant at diagnosing the failings of Western intervention in the Third World." -BusinessWeekIn his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Mans Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch-a brilliant and blistering indictment of the Wests economic policies for the worlds poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous, Easterly argues that we in the West need to face our own history of ineptitude and draw the proper conclusions, especially at a time when the question of our ability to transplant Western institutions has become one of the most pressing issues we face.