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.
"This directory is an updated edition of part I (organization profile information) of the 1971 TAICH directory--U.S. non-profit organizations in development assistance abroad. Part II of the 1971 directory has been expanded and updated through a series of periodically revised country reports." ...
The Development Directory is a complete, interdisciplinary guide to the US-based international development community. It is a broad survey of te organizations and individuals involved in the study of, and cooperation with, developing nations.
This report outlines our views on some of the policy changes which are needed to eradicate poverty.As a non-governmental organisation working in over 70 developing countries, Oxfam is acutely aware that there are no easy answers when it comes to development. Much of what we say in this report is...
01-01-2011 This book covers 16 critical topics, like climate change, agricultural development and health, as well as countries deemed important to U.S. national interests, such as Afghanistan.
In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing Afad rican nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase...
To help developing countries take full advantage of its services, the Investment Centre keeps its administravtive procedures as simply as possible. The easiest way for a Governement to request help is by contacting the FAO country Representative or by writing to the Director of the Investment...
01-01-1965 This book attempts to open a door upon the enormously difficult possiblity that men may improve themselves. There is no certainty that this possibility is realizable. This book begins with an intimate view of the phenomenon under consideration-human beings in process of self-chosen change....
The situation in the South has been presented in the following chapters, as the writer has seen it for a period of years. He claims that the advantage of being on the ground, as a close student of the existing situation, gives him at least some advantage in the presentation of his views, and a...