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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 — 8,376 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 3.84 — 5,696 ratings — published 2006
Lords of Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 393 ratings — published 1994
Gray Mountain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 111,119 ratings — published 2014
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 8,048 ratings — published 2015
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,702 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 — 8,043 ratings — published 2007
Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,141 ratings — published 2013
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,134 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 4.21 — 90,058 ratings — published 2003
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War (African Arguments)
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avg rating 3.78 — 242 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 — 10,471 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 — 309 ratings — published 2010
The Road to Hell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 385 ratings — published 1997
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,484 ratings — published 2013
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 24,996 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 3.79 — 3,891 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 — 6,990 ratings — published 2009
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,299 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 — 14,180 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 — 4,147 ratings — published 1891
Clawing Back: Redistribution In Precarious Times (Culture and Economic Life)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)
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avg rating 4.14 — 157 ratings — published 2015
Making Aid Work: Kueling With Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Humanitarianism, War, and Politics: Solferino to Syria and Beyond (New Millennium Books in International Studies)
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avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)
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avg rating 4.75 — 16 ratings — published
Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 3,901 ratings — published 2020
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume Two: Actions and Strategies for Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 44 ratings — published
Abolitionist Intimacies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.58 — 220 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 — 111 ratings — published
The Event of Postcolonial Shame (Translation/Transnation)
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avg rating 4.12 — 24 ratings — published 2010
Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression and Pain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 95 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 — 540 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 4.32 — 275,647 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
“Donating a dollar from two dollars is bigger donation than donating a dollar from hundred dollars.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone—but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
