First world, Third World
This new, updated and extended edition of First World, Third World examines the failures of aid to eliminate poverty. The world development effort can claim only limited success, and in some parts of the world, especially Africa, failure must be recognised. William Ryrie, while starting from a position of sympathy with the aims of the aid effort, insists that the record must be analysed with ruthless honesty. Well-intentioned aid has often had perverse and harmful effects. One of these has been…
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- Full title :First world, Third World / William Ryrie.
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This new, updated and extended edition of First World, Third World examines the failures of aid to eliminate poverty. The world development effort can claim only limited success, and in some parts of the world, especially Africa, failure must be recognised. William Ryrie, while starting from a position of sympathy with the aims of the aid effort, insists that the record must be analysed with ruthless honesty. Well-intentioned aid has often had perverse and harmful effects. One of these has been to undermine the working of the market economy, which offers the best hope of rapid growth and declining poverty. Ryrie argues that a new intellectual basis for aid must be formulated urgently. His book proposes a new approach to the development task which would reconcile it with market philosophies.
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- Publication Date:1999.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:033398367X, 9780333983676, 9780230596818, 0230596819, 1280249277, 9781280249273, 9786610249275, 661024927X
- DOI:10.1057/9780230596818
- oclc:ocm49838312
- LC Classification:HC60
- Dewey Decimal:330.91724
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Half a Century of International Development -- Success or Failure -- The Illusion of State-Managed Development -- The Market Revolution -- Global Capital Flows -- Is Capitalism Right for the Third World? -- Re-Inventing Aid -- The International Finance Corporation -- What Future for the World Bank and IMF? -- The Collapse of the Second World -- Where Now? -- Twenty Propositions about Development and Aid -- Notes and References -- Index.
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