White Man's Burden

<b>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. <p/>Brilliant at diagnosing the failings of Western intervention in the Third World. <b>--<i>BusinessWeek <p/></i></b></b>In his previous book <i>The Elusive Quest for Growth</i> 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. <i>The White Man's Burden</i> is his widely anticipated counterpunch--a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West's economic policies for the world's poor. Sometimes angry sometimes irreverent but always clear-eyed and rigorous Easterly argues that we in the West need to face our own history of ineptitude and draw the proper conclusions especially at a time when the question of our ability to transplant Western institutions has become one of the most pressing issues we face.