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Global Development Books
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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)
by (shelved 11 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,677 ratings — published 2006
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,003 ratings — published 2012
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,596 ratings — published 2011
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,138 ratings — published 1999
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,017 ratings — published 2007
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,316 ratings — published 2009
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.35 — 203,067 ratings — published 2018
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,420 ratings — published 2012
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,183 ratings — published 2003
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,253 ratings — published 2005
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,886 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,127 ratings — published 1997
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,799 ratings — published 2013
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,830 ratings — published 2014
Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,173 ratings — published 2009
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,730 ratings — published 2008
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,145 ratings — published 2009
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 999 ratings — published 2011
Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.62 — 202 ratings — published 2011
The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,543 ratings — published 2013
The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.02 — 369 ratings — published 1976
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.62 — 3,990 ratings — published 2017
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,672 ratings — published 2014
The Wealth of (Some) Nations: Imperialism and the Mechanics of Value Transfer
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.13 — 99 ratings — published
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,277,489 ratings — published 2011
Liberalism: A Counter-History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,168 ratings — published 2005
On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,476 ratings — published 2019
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,594 ratings — published 1971
Why We Lie About Aid: Development and the Messy Politics of Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.78 — 50 ratings — published
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,434 ratings — published 2016
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,497 ratings — published 2013
Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (Sociology for a New Century)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.72 — 112 ratings — published 1996
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,216 ratings — published 1997
Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 544 ratings — published 2008
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail (BK Currents Book)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.84 — 611 ratings — published 2008
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,429 ratings — published 1991
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,653 ratings — published 2001
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,473 ratings — published 2013
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,077 ratings — published 2020
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,221 ratings — published 2025
The World-System and Africa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published
The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789–1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 112 ratings — published 2011
Peasants in Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (SAGE Series on African Modernization & Development)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1980
Dependence and Transformation: The Economics of the Transition to Socialism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Social conflict and social movements (Prentice-Hall series in sociology)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Anthropology and Politics: Visions, Traditions, and Trends (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published 1994
Essays on the Political Economy of Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 1973
The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s–1840s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 130 ratings — published 1988
Revolution in the Third World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 23 ratings — published 1989
Against the Market: Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 4.26 — 46 ratings — published 1993
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“Women empowerment is a vital component for global development.”
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― Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
