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100 1 $aEasterly, William,$d1957-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88607907
245 14 $aThe white man's burden :$bwhy the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good /$cWilliam Easterly.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Press,$c2006.
300 $a436 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tPlanners versus searchers --$gPt. I.$tWhy planners cannot bring prosperity --$gCh. 2.$tThe legend of the big push --$gCh. 3.$tYou can't plan a market --$gCh. 4.$tPlanners and gangsters --$gPt. II.$tActing out the burden --$gCh. 5.$tThe rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats --$gCh. 6.$tBailing out the poor --$gCh. 7.$tThe healers : triumph and tragedy --$gPt. III.$tThe white man's army --$gCh. 8.$tFrom colonialism to postmodern imperialism --$gCh. 9.$tInvading the poor --$gPt. IV.$tThe future --$gCh. 10.$tHomegrown development --$gCh. 11.$tThe future of western assistance.
520 1 $a"The White Man's Burden is about what William Easterly calls the twin tragedies of global poverty. The first is that so many are seemingly fated to live horribly stunted, miserable lives and die such early deaths. The second is that after fifty years and more than $2.3 trillion in aid from the West addressing the first tragedy, there is so shockingly little to show for it. We'll never solve the first tragedy, William Easterly argues, unless we figure out the second." "So what's going on? The ironies are many: We preach a gospel of freedom and individual accountability, yet we intrude on the inner workings of so-called developing countries through bloated aid bureaucracies like the IMF and World Bank that are accountable to no one for the effects of their prescriptions. We've cheered our victory over communism, but seven decades after Stalin's five-year plans, we're still imposing five-year plans of our own on the wretched of the earth. We take all the credit for the economic success stories of the last fifty years, like South Korea and Taiwan, when in fact we deserve very little of it. We deny all accountability for the fact that despite more than half a trillion dollars poured into Africa and other regions, and one "big new idea" after another, the majority of places in which we've meddled the most are in fact no better off or are even worse off than they were before. Could there be a connection? Could it be that we don't know as much as we think we do about the magic spells that will open the door to the road to wealth?" "Absolutely, William Easterly thunders in this sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous book. He argues that we 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 onto foreign soil so that they take root has become one of the most pressing issues we face."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEconomic assistance$zDeveloping countries.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102539
650 0 $aPoverty$xPrevention.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2019103051
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