I found out about it at a blog provocatively titled, Make Wealth History. That blogger's synopsis of the book asks some fundamentally important questions:
‘The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good’ poses two fairly simple questions. First of all, how have the rich countries managed to give away $2.3 trillion over the last decades and still see people dying of malnutrition and entirely curable diseases? And secondly, why can the free market deliver millions of copies of a new Harry Potter book to children around the world all on the same day, but can’t deliver a life-saving vaccination programme?Very interesting sutff.
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