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  1. Shelfari

    Shelfari edited the description of The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business Wednesday, August 5 2009.

    • A comprehensive and controversial study of the 60-billion-dollar-a-year world foreign-aid business, Lords of Poverty was a bestseller in hardcover and earned the 1990 H.L. Mencken Award honorable mention for an outstanding book of journalism. Hancock investigates why huge aid projects often fail and demands a response from those in the industry.

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  2. Shelfari

    Shelfari edited the contributors of The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business Wednesday, August 5 2009.

    • Added a contributor: Graham Hancock: (Primary Author)
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    Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business Friday, July 17 2009.

    • THE WHITE WOMAN, tired but pretty, the one in the blue paisley frock, what exactly is she doing?
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