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4) The assembly
Author
Series
E.F. Schumacher lectures volume 16th
Publisher
E.F. Schumacher
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Oxfam GB
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The Millenium Development Goals, chosen on the grounds that they were realistic and achievable, are a commitment by global leaders to halve poverty and hunger, provide education for all, improve standards of health, halt the spread of major diseases such as HIV/AIDS, and slow down environmental degradation by 2015. A vital aim of these goals is that the poorest countries will have the finance needed to achieve them. To do this, rich countries have...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to date to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, with constructive suggestions on how to move forward. Economist Easterly discusses the twin tragedies of global poverty: the first, that so many are seemingly fated to live miserable lives and die early deaths; the second, that after fifty years and more than $2.3 trillion in aid, we have shockingly little to show...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This book offers a view of the lives of the world's poorest people, helping to explain why the poor tend to borrow in order to save, why they miss out on free life-saving immunizations but pay for drugs that they do not need, and the cointerintuitive challenges faced by those living on less than 99 cents a day. Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of...
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Language
English
Description
"Assesses the current structures of foreign assistance and makes recommendations for efficient coordination. Drawing on expertise from the full range of foreign aid agencies, examines foreign assistance across four categories: security, economic, humanitarian, and political"--Provided by publisher.
14) Africa doesn't matter: how the West has failed the poorest continent and what we can do about it
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"In this engaging, jargon-free, reader-friendly guide, longtime aid worker and diplomat Giles Bolton offers his radical analysis of the problems Africa faces, drawing on years of experience on the ground. Dividing the book into five sections: poverty, aid, trade, globalization, and change, he analyzes the issues, breaking them down with helpful features like sidebars and bullet points and humanizing them with stories about real people in Africa and...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This thesis examines a development program delivery system as if it were a commodity value chain. Within this chain, organizations are linked by a series of contracts and sub-contracts through which resources and ideas are traded downward, to program beneficiaries, in exchange for social capital and ideas, which are traded upward to program donors. Resources, ideas and social capital therefore represent forms of capital, or currency, within a micro-economy...
