We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig deep into our pockets. Yet what happens to all this aid? Why after 50 years and $2.3 trillion are there still children dying for lack of twelve cents medicine? Why are there so many people still living on less than $1 a day without clean water, food, sanitation, shelter, education or medicine? In The White Man's Burden William Easterly, acclaimed author and former economist at the World Bank, addresses these twin tragedies head on. While recognising the energy and compassion behind the campaign to make poverty history he argues urgently and powerfully that grand plans and good intentions are a part of the problem not the solution. Giving aid is not enough, we must ensure that it reaches the people who need it most and the only way to make this happens is through accountability and by learning from past experiences. Without claiming to have all the answers, William Easterly chastises the complacent and patronising attitude of the West that attempts to impose solutions from above. In this book, which is by turns angry, moving, irreverent but always rigorous, he calls on each and everyone of us to take responsibility, whether donors, aid workers or ordinary citizens, so that more aid reaches the people it is supposed to help, the mother who cannot feed her children, the little girl who has to collect firewood rather than go to school, the father who cannot work because he has been crippled by war.
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评分本书的作者详细的记述了白人的西方富裕国家对有色人种的贫穷国家的援助，从几个方面分析了成功与失败的原因，包括外国的援助的大计划和低效率、接受国的政局动荡和腐败横行、国际组织的好大喜功和后殖民主义的伪善野蛮等等…… 作者把援助失败和成功的主要原因归结为计划者和调...
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大实话，慈善不是正常商业运作无法参与市场经济，免费薅来的东西大家不用，得根据实际支付能力让他们去买。——这说的是正常情况，可不是突发灾难人道救援呀，我怀疑x会跑去卖物资是拿了这个理论基础，如果那帮玩意也看书的话，如果他们也需要假装为了经济好。
评分大实话，慈善不是正常商业运作无法参与市场经济，免费薅来的东西大家不用，得根据实际支付能力让他们去买。——这说的是正常情况，可不是突发灾难人道救援呀，我怀疑x会跑去卖物资是拿了这个理论基础，如果那帮玩意也看书的话，如果他们也需要假装为了经济好。
评分大脸怪蜀黍。。。
评分写的很好，discuss the reasons why western aids are so inefficient (the top-bottom approach) and provide some possible solutions.
评分作者用统计证据花式证伪Jeffrey Sachs的aid ends poverty理论，但用具体story back his own theory，总之读到现在没有觉得searcher theory有在事实上而非直觉上使我非常信服的地方。之后关于建立市场和民主的论述也是cliche。这本书的定位应该是西方白人的宏观经济政治科普书，随意翻翻就好。
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