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Abstract:
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Ch. 1. Planners versus searchers -- Pt. I. Why planners cannot bring prosperity -- Ch. 2. The legend of the big push -- Ch. 3. You can't plan a market -- Ch. 4. Planners and gangsters -- Pt. II. Acting out the burden -- Ch. 5. The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats -- Ch. 6. Bailing out the poor -- Ch. 7. The healers : triumph and tragedy -- Pt. III. The white man's army -- Ch. 8. From colonialism to postmodern imperialism -- Ch. 9. Invading the poor -- Pt. IV. The future -- Ch. 10. Homegrown de
"The White Man's Burden is about what William Easterly calls the twin tragedies of global poverty. The first is that so many are seemingly fated to live horribly stunted, miserable lives and die such early deaths. The second is that after fifty years and more than $2.3 trillion in aid from the West addressing the first tragedy, there is so shockingly little to show for it. We'll never solve the first tragedy, William Easterly argues, unless we figure out the second." "So what's going on? The ironies are m
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