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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 — 5,661 ratings — published 2006
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 61,923 ratings — published 2012
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,977 ratings — published 2007
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,232 ratings — published 2011
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,086 ratings — published 1999
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,245 ratings — published 2009
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.36 — 200,534 ratings — published 2018
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,435 ratings — published 2003
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,612 ratings — published 2014
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,306 ratings — published 2012
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,232 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 — 358,538 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 453,715 ratings — published 1997
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,395 ratings — published 2013
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 — 1,172 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 — 55,600 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 — 7,118 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 — 996 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 — 203 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 4.31 — 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 4.01 — 362 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 — 3,845 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 — 29,373 ratings — published 2014
The Wealth of (Some) Nations: Imperialism and the Mechanics of Value Transfer
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 96 ratings — published
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,242,750 ratings — published 2011
Liberalism: A Counter-History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,130 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 — 6,413 ratings — published 2019
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,253 ratings — published 1971
Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.89 — 151 ratings — published 2013
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
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,851 ratings — published 2015
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,406 ratings — published 2016
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,414 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 — 3,215 ratings — published 1997
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,713 ratings — published 2007
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 — 548 ratings — published 2008
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail (BK Currents Book)
by (shelved 2 times as global-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 608 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 — 10,390 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 3.96 — 1,650 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 — 1,459 ratings — published 2013
The World-System and Africa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published
The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789–1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 110 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 — 2 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 4.21 — 129 ratings — published 1988
Revolution in the Third World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as global-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 23 ratings — published 1989
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