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Article: The White Man's Burden.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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The White Man's Burden
By William Easterly
[pounds sterling]16.99 Oxford University Press
0-19-921082-9
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We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflicts 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 12 cents medicine? Why are there so many people still living on less than a dollar a day without clean water, food, sanitation, shelter, education or medicine?
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