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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
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Celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book. His focus is on the one billion poorest individuals around the world who are caught in a poverty trap of disease, physical isolation, environmental stress, political i... »
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
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It's hard not to be delighted by this marvelous book. The author does an excellent job sorting through the complexities of economic data to explain why the rising tide of the world's economy is leaving roughly one billion of the world's population, most of them in Africa, mired in what seems to be perpetual misery and poverty. Some of his conclusions a... »
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Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
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It began with a simple $27 loan. After witnessing the cycle of poverty that kept many poor women enslaved to high-interest loan sharks in Bangladesh, Dr. Muhammad Yunus lent money to 42 women so they could purchase bamboo to make and sell stools. In a short time, the women were able to repay the loans while continuing to support themselves and their fa... »
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Development as Freedom
Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen strikes a beautiful balance here between socialists, who have their hearts in the right place but refuse to accept that the... »
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