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The White Man's Burden - Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good (Paperback)
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The White Man's Burden - Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good (Paperback)
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We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the
world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy
the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig
deep into our pockets. Yet what happens to all this aid? Why after
50 years and $2.3 trillion are there still children dying for lack
of twelve cents medicine? Why are there so many people still living
on less than $1 a day without clean water, food, sanitation,
shelter, education or medicine? In The White Man's Burden William
Easterly, acclaimed author and former economist at the World Bank,
addresses these twin tragedies head on. While recognising the
energy and compassion behind the campaign to make poverty history
he argues urgently and powerfully that grand plans and good
intentions are a part of the problem not the solution. Giving aid
is not enough, we must ensure that it reaches the people who need
it most and the only way to make this happens is through
accountability and by learning from past experiences. Without
claiming to have all the answers, William Easterly chastises the
complacent and patronising attitude of the West that attempts to
impose solutions from above. In this book, which is by turns angry,
moving, irreverent but always rigorous, he calls on each and
everyone of us to take responsibility, whether donors, aid workers
or ordinary citizens, so that more aid reaches the people it is
supposed to help, the mother who cannot feed her children, the
little girl who has to collect firewood rather than go to school,
the father who cannot work because he has been crippled by war.
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