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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,206 ratings — published 2011
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,364 ratings — published 2012
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,075 ratings — published 2007
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,243 ratings — published 1999
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,297 ratings — published 2005
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,706 ratings — published 2006
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,408 ratings — published 2009
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,496 ratings — published 2013
Economic Development (8th Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.95 — 498 ratings — published 1977
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,661 ratings — published 2001
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,389 ratings — published 2014
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.21 — 15,209 ratings — published 2019
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,311 ratings — published 2013
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,502 ratings — published 1991
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,427 ratings — published 2013
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,002 ratings — published 2011
Development Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.04 — 187 ratings — published 1998
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,232 ratings — published 1997
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,001 ratings — published 1998
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,465 ratings — published 2000
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,530 ratings — published 2002
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,431 ratings — published 1997
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,067 ratings — published 2012
Globalization and its Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,304 ratings — published 2002
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,422 ratings — published 2005
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.32 — 443 ratings — published 2016
State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.74 — 107 ratings — published 2004
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,145 ratings — published 2019
The Theory of Economic Growth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published 1955
Development Economics: Theory and practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published 2015
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,489 ratings — published 2013
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,936 ratings — published 2010
Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.85 — 866 ratings — published 2009
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,889 ratings — published 2007
Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,178 ratings — published 2009
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,898 ratings — published 2003
How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World's Last Developmental Frontier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.04 — 312 ratings — published
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,296 ratings — published 1971
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,456 ratings — published 1998
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,724 ratings — published 2014
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,539 ratings — published 2011
Rethinking Development Economics (Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy and Development, 1)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.00 — 50 ratings — published 2003
Inequality Reexamined (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.06 — 292 ratings — published 2000
The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.58 — 435 ratings — published 2010
Handbook of Development Economics (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published 2009
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,015 ratings — published 2018
Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.71 — 42 ratings — published 2005
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.93 — 338 ratings — published 2001
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,454 ratings — published 2012
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as development-economics)
avg rating 4.01 — 911,841 ratings — published 2005
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