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Via  post publicado por Amid Lockwood no blogue da Stanford Social Innovation Review , abaixo apresentamos a opinião da referida autora sobre os Top 10 Books on Economics of Poverty: "The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (2006) by William Easterly Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don’t seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (2006) by Jeffrey Sachs Taking an almost entirely diametrical approach than Easterly, Sachs outlines a detailed plan to help the poorest of the poor reach the first rung...