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The white man's burden: why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good

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Abstract

1. Planners Versus Searchers WHY PLANNERS CANNOT BRING PROSPERITY 2. The Legend of the Big Push 3. You Can't Plan a Market 4. Planners and Gangsters ACTING OUT THE BURDEN 5. The Rich Have Markets, the Poor Have Bureaucrats 6. Bailing Out the Poor 7. The Healers: Triumph and Tragedy THE WHITE MAN'S ARMY 8. From Colonialism to Postmodern Imperialism 9. Invading the Poor THE FUTURE 10. Homegrown Development 11. The Future of Western Assistance

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  • Rest (music)
  • White (mutation)
  • Development economics
  • History
  • Medicine
  • Economics
  • Internal medicine
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • No poverty
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