International Development Books
Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument by Patrick Chabal
Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World by Ben Ramalingam
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
The Barefoot Guide to working with Organizations and Social Change by Doug Reeler, Rubert Van Blerk, James Taylor, Desiree Paulsen, Sue Soal
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis by David Rieff
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa by Dayo Olopade
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
The Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai
Chasing Misery: an anthology of essays by women in humanitarian responses by Kelsey Hoppe
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus
Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid by Samantha Nutt
Dan Eldon: Safari as a Way of Life by Jennifer New
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative by Barbara Heron
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
Does Foreign Aid Really Work? by Roger C. Riddell
Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace - or War by Mary B. Anderson
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa by Deborah Brautigam
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Daron Acemoğlu
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures by Heidi Postlewait
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World by Arturo Escobar
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in and Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow
Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa by Alex de Waal
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark
Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C.K. Prahalad
Girl Power in the Age of the Millennials: Essays on Women, Youth and Global Social Change by Christine Horansky
Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security by Mark Duffield
Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon by Paola Gianturco
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics by William Easterly
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof
How Europe and America Are Still Underdeveloping Africa by Joseph R. Gibson
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
Humanitarian Intervention: Confronting the Contradictions by Michael W. Newman
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty by Nina Munk
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang
Letters Left Unsent by J
Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Practices and Principles by Peter F. Drucker
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Dean Karlan
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee
Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day by Daryl Collins
From Poverty to Power - How active citizens and effective states can change the world by Duncan Green
Practical Idealists: Changing the World and Getting Paid by Alissa Wilson
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
The Scramble for Africa by Muriel Evelyn Chamberlain
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire
The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink by Maria Shriver
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor by William Easterly
Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential by Dan Pallotta
War Games by Linda Polman
The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
What Works in Development?: Thinking Big and Thinking Small by Jessica Cohen (Editor)
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu
Women Who Light the Dark by Paola Gianturco
Woman's Role in Economic Development by Ester Boserup
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua
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