Aid


Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Lords of Poverty
Gray Mountain
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War (African Arguments)
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Reinventing Foreign Aid (Mit Press)
War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times
Little Princes by Conor GrennanBetween Inca Walls, A Peace Corps Memoir by Evelyn Kohl LaTorreRiver Town by Peter HesslerMonique and the Mango Rains by Kris HollowayThe Color of the Elephant by Christine  Herbert
Volunteers - Memoirs
74 books — 24 voters
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
223 books — 208 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherEmergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures)  by Kenneth CainYippie Girl by Judy GumboNo Dancing, No Dancing by Denis Dragovic
Civil Conflict
19 books — 20 voters

Binyavanga Wainaina
I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.
Binyavanga Wainaina

Jodi Picoult
I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid. ...more
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

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