Description
Product ID: | 9780091914356 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Aid and Other Dirty Business |
Subtitle: | How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor |
Authors: | Author: Giles Bolton |
Page Count: | 352 |
Subjects: | Social and ethical issues, Social issues & processes, Social discrimination and social justice, Social and cultural anthropology, Social welfare and social services, Aid and relief programmes, Politics and government, Social discrimination & inequality, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social welfare & social services, Aid & relief programmes, Politics & government |
Description: | Select Guide Rating and so are the solutionsWhen Giles Bolton began working in the world of aid and development, he travelled to Africa convinced that he could solve problems, save villages and sing songs with the locals under a shimmering sunset. Do you know why Africa is so poor? What really happens to your charity money? Why do trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We''ve heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank. |
Imprint Name: | Ebury Press |
Publisher Name: | Ebury Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2008-07-03 |