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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

  by William Russell Easterly

  From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth , William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The... (more)
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  The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

  by Hernando de Soto

  "The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph" writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital , the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up the question that, more than any other, is central to one of the most crucial problems the world faces today: Why do some countries succeed at capitalism while others fail? In strong opposition to the... (more)
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  Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

  by Jeffrey Sachs

  From one of the world's greatest economic minds, author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty , a clear and vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity and an augury of the global economic collapse that lies ahead if we don't follow it The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, one that will overturn many of our basic... (more)
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  The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits

  by C. K. Prahalad

  The world's most exciting, fastest-growing new market is where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense untapped buying power. They represent an enormous opportunity for companies who learn how to serve them. Not only can it be done, it is being done--very profitably. What's more, companies aren't just making money: by serving these markets,... (more)
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  Worldwide Volunteering

  by Roger Potter

  This text is an A-Z directory focusing on volunteer projects for young people. It covers over 950 volunteer organisations and over 300,000 annual placements throughout the UK and in 200 other countries. It is indexed by both project and country.
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  The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

  by William Russell Easterly

  Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth, and making aid loans as well as forgiving those loans on condition of reforms. None of these... (more)
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  John Perkins Economic Hitman: Book 1

  Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

  by John Perkins

  Confessions of an Economic Hit Man reveals a game that, according to John Perkins, is "as old as Empire" but has taken on new and terrifying dimensions in an era of globalization. And Perkins should know. For many years he worked for an international consulting firm where his main job was to convince LDCs (less developed countries) around the world to accept multibillion-dollar loans for infrastructure projects... (more)
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  The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

  by Jeffrey Sachs

  A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the world’s poorest citizens Among the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty distills the life work of an economist Time calls one of the world’s 100 most influential people. Sachs’s aim is nothing less than to deliver a big picture of how societies emerge from poverty. To do so he ... (more)
• The Martyred City: Death and Rebirth in the AndesAnthony Oliver-Smith

  

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  The Martyred City: Death and Rebirth in the Andes

  by Anthony Oliver-Smith

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  The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working

  by Robert Calderisi

  After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of Africa’s misfortunes are self-imposed, and why the world must now deal differently with the continent. Here we learn that Africa has steadily lost markets by its own mismanagement, that even capitalist countries... (more)
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  Careers in International Affairs

  CAREERS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, now in its 7th Edition, stands in the sterling reputation of its previous editions as being a major resource for anyone, young or old, seeking to help make a safer and more stable world through their contributions in an international career. This new, totally revised edition provides up-to-date descriptions and data about careers in the global workplace and how to find them. ... (more)
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  Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali (Princeton Studies in Complexity)

  by John Stephen Lansing

  Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation flows for everyone.... (more)
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  The Persistence of Poverty: Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can't Help the Poor

  by Charles Karelis

  In this important book, one of our boldest and most original thinkers charges that conventional explanations of poverty are mistaken, and that the anti-poverty policies built upon them are doomed to fail. Using science, history, fables, philosophical analysis, and common observation, Charles Karelis engages us and takes us to a deeper grasp of the link between consumption and satisfaction—and from there to a new... (more)
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  Working in the Voluntary Sector: How to Find Rewarding Work in Charities and Voluntary Organizations

  by Craig Brown

  Aiming to help making good career decisions, this book is intended for all age groups "This book is an eye-opener and for some could be a life-changing influence...What impressed me most was not just the information but the guidance...I recommend this book to all age groups. It could really help make some good career decisions." - "Career Scope". Whether you want to devote your life to a cause, do paid or... (more)
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  The Directory of Work & Study in Developing Countries

  This guide to employment, voluntary work and academic opportunities in the Third World is designed for those who wish to experience life there as more than a tourist. The book lists thousands of opportunities for work or study with over 4OO organizations in over 100 developing countries.
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  Working with the Environment

  by Tim Ryder

  Working with the Environment gives full details of over 275 organizations offering paid and unpaid opportunities, and contact addresses are given for hundreds more.
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  The Ethical Careers Guide (Careers)

  "The Ethical Careers Guide" is the essential handbook for everyone who wants to make the world a better place. Living a socially responsible lifestyle is more popular than ever and increasingly people want their working life to reflect their values. This guide aims to give readers advice and inspiration through penetrating features, challenging opinion, revealing interviews, organisation fact files and dozens of... (more)
• Getting into International DevelopmentJeff Riley

  

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  Getting into International Development

  by Jeff Riley

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  Which Degree?: 2003 (Which Degree?)

  This set of students' guides to all UK full-time and sandwich first-degree courses offers students the choice of courses before they turn to prospectuses. Grouped by study field, each of the four volumes (arts, humanities, languages; engineering, technology, geography; sciences, medicine, mathematics; social sciences, business, education and law) are divided into subject chapters with courses arranged... (more)
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  The International Development Directory

  by Sarah Harland, Dave Griffiths

  Essential information on UK-based voluntary organisations working in the developing world (including Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union) together with details of funding sources for such work.