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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 8,350 ratings — published 2009
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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avg rating 3.83 — 5,686 ratings — published 2006
Lords of Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 392 ratings — published 1994
Gray Mountain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 110,411 ratings — published 2014
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 8,005 ratings — published 2015
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,690 ratings — published 2004
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 8,028 ratings — published 2007
Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,126 ratings — published 2013
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,063 ratings — published 2017
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 89,709 ratings — published 2003
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War (African Arguments)
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avg rating 3.78 — 241 ratings — published 2005
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 445 ratings — published 2002
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 10,450 ratings — published 1991
Reinventing Foreign Aid (Mit Press)
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avg rating 3.80 — 44 ratings — published 2008
War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 308 ratings — published 2010
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,474 ratings — published 2013
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 24,819 ratings — published 2011
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, and Economics)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,869 ratings — published 2015
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 6,951 ratings — published 2009
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,294 ratings — published 2008
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 14,135 ratings — published 2009
Aid and Other Dirty Business: How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 245 ratings — published 2007
Does Foreign Aid Really Work? (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 81 ratings — published 2007
Wilderness First Responder: How to Recognize, Treat, and Prevent Emergencies in the Backcountry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 96 ratings — published 1998
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 4,105 ratings — published 1891
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume Two: Actions and Strategies for Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.56 — 43 ratings — published
Abolitionist Intimacies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.58 — 217 ratings — published 2022
The Emergency Survival Manual: 294 Life-Saving Skills (Outdoor Life)
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avg rating 4.06 — 53 ratings — published 2015
Why Africa is Poor: And What Africans Can Do About It (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 94 ratings — published 2010
Advocacy in Conflict: Critical Perspectives on Transnational Activism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 2015
Undermining Development: The Absence of Power Among Local NGOs in Africa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2004
Decolonising the University (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 110 ratings — published
The Event of Postcolonial Shame (Translation/Transnation)
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avg rating 4.17 — 23 ratings — published 2010
Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression and Pain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 96 ratings — published
The Golden Fleece: Manipulation and Independence in Humanitarian Action (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2012
Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, Or Mooching Off My Parents (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 541 ratings — published 2010
African Literary NGOs: Power, Politics, and Participation (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2013
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 255,339 ratings — published 2025
Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting its Role (Priorities for Development Economics)
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avg rating 3.45 — 11 ratings — published 2005
The Rise and Fall of Public–Private Partnerships: Finance, Infrastructure and Developing Countries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
José Feeds the World: How a Famous Chef Feeds Millions of People in Need around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 217 ratings — published
The World Bank: Its First Half Century, Vol. I & II (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1997
Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 25 ratings — published
Development Projects Observed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.48 — 31 ratings — published 1967
Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top-Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published
یک عاشقانهی آرام (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 6,312 ratings — published 1997
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 97,683 ratings — published 2015
The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (Meridian-Crossing Aesthetics)
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avg rating 4.08 — 454 ratings — published 1992
“Donating a dollar from two dollars is bigger donation than donating a dollar from hundred dollars.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.”
― The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
― The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
