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The Development Trap - How Thinking Big Fails the Poor (Paperback)
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The Development Trap - How Thinking Big Fails the Poor (Paperback)
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A wave of optimism is sweeping through the international aid and
development industry, championed by leaders such as Jeffrey Sachs
and Jim Yong Kim, who believe that poverty eradication could be
within our grasp. Yet in stark opposition come those who believe
that all international development intervention is hegemonic,
paternalistic, and neocolonialist and must be done away with. In
this book, the author argues for a middle ground. Poverty is an
entrenched, intractable problem that will never be entirely
eradicated. However, if we reorientate our objectives in line with
realistic goals that improve the way that poverty is confronted on
a smaller scale, we can still continue the fight for meaningful
change. Using rigorous scholarship illustrated with vivid
storytelling and personal anecdotes from fighting against poverty
in the field, The Development Trap argues that we need to make
progress against poverty on the micro, rather than the macro scale.
Instead of shooting for a single overarching end of poverty, our
goals must be modest and reachable.
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