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World Development Books
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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,381 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)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,702 ratings — published 2006
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,284 ratings — published 2005
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,170 ratings — published 2017
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,809 ratings — published 2018
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,035 ratings — published 2011
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,479 ratings — published 1991
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,047 ratings — published 2007
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,211 ratings — published 1999
The Approaching Great Transformation: Creating a New Commonwealth for the End of the Oil Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.62 — 21 ratings — published 2013
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,510,081 ratings — published 2015
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,487 ratings — published 2013
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,247 ratings — published 2013
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,203 ratings — published 2012
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.19 — 123,231 ratings — published 2015
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.14 — 22,072 ratings — published 2013
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,888 ratings — published 2010
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,226 ratings — published 1997
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,217 ratings — published 2020
Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.78 — 881 ratings — published 2015
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,615 ratings — published 2013
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.33 — 757 ratings — published 1991
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,894 ratings — published 2018
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,227 ratings — published 2019
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.40 — 184,134 ratings — published 2010
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,953 ratings — published 2012
The Shackled Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 610 ratings — published 2004
The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 924 ratings — published 2014
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,733 ratings — published 1973
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,214 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 6,645 ratings — published 2005
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,123 ratings — published 1859
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,717 ratings — published 2018
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,599 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.49 — 838,617 ratings — published 2016
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,485 ratings — published 2013
The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 763 ratings — published 2012
Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,176 ratings — published 2009
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,449 ratings — published 2000
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,880 ratings — published 2008
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,470 ratings — published 2008
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,708 ratings — published 2004
صناعة الجوع: خرافة الندرة (عالم المعرفة، #64)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.97 — 432 ratings — published 1980
Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.29 — 696 ratings — published 2014
The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.07 — 43 ratings — published 2015
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,445 ratings — published 2014
China Goes Global: The Partial Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 415 ratings — published 2013
Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.58 — 590 ratings — published 2012
The Future of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,190 ratings — published 2010
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-development)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,907 ratings — published 2008
“Progress means to be true to the world, If we need to make a change.”
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“When the world is to come to it's final destruction the powerful will always reason of peaceful nuclear programs which in my own words is a shameful chapter to start when the world has already been destroyed.”
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