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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褒奖市场经济的问题在于，它忽略了由下至上的调查，而正是它们才是市场得以良好运转的必要条件。很重要的一点是，社会体制和规范必须要防止市场参与者进行“机会主义行为”，更一般地说是“欺诈行为”。市场经济中“看不见的手”使参与者打着社会利益的幌子褒奖个人，唯有利用...
評分William Easterly在<The white man's burden>一书的开篇提出一个问题"why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good?"为什么西方数年超过万亿美元的非洲援助依然不能改变非洲的现状？贫穷，疾病，战火···从来没有从那片土地上消失过。...
評分褒奖市场经济的问题在于，它忽略了由下至上的调查，而正是它们才是市场得以良好运转的必要条件。很重要的一点是，社会体制和规范必须要防止市场参与者进行“机会主义行为”，更一般地说是“欺诈行为”。市场经济中“看不见的手”使参与者打着社会利益的幌子褒奖个人，唯有利用...
評分William Easterly在<The white man's burden>一书的开篇提出一个问题"why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good?"为什么西方数年超过万亿美元的非洲援助依然不能改变非洲的现状？贫穷，疾病，战火···从来没有从那片土地上消失过。...
評分William Easterly在<The white man's burden>一书的开篇提出一个问题"why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good?"为什么西方数年超过万亿美元的非洲援助依然不能改变非洲的现状？贫穷，疾病，战火···从来没有从那片土地上消失过。...
用戶評價
寫的很好，discuss the reasons why western aids are so inefficient (the top-bottom approach) and provide some possible solutions.
评分作者用統計證據花式證僞Jeffrey Sachs的aid ends poverty理論，但用具體story back his own theory，總之讀到現在沒有覺得searcher theory有在事實上而非直覺上使我非常信服的地方。之後關於建立市場和民主的論述也是cliche。這本書的定位應該是西方白人的宏觀經濟政治科普書，隨意翻翻就好。
评分發展研究經典著作。伊斯特利點齣西方援助失敗的核心原因是缺乏責任與反饋機製，因此他贊成由下而上、且配有科學評估方法的小規模發展項目。每個argument都由對案例的分析發展而來，語言生動所以讀起來挺有意思的。
评分寫的很好，discuss the reasons why western aids are so inefficient (the top-bottom approach) and provide some possible solutions.
评分發展研究經典著作。伊斯特利點齣西方援助失敗的核心原因是缺乏責任與反饋機製，因此他贊成由下而上、且配有科學評估方法的小規模發展項目。每個argument都由對案例的分析發展而來，語言生動所以讀起來挺有意思的。
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