The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story by Asif Dowla and Dipal Barua If anyone is interested in seeing inside one of the world’s most innovative microfinance organizations, this is a fantastic documentary of the huge transformation that Grameen Bank (founded by Muhammad Yunus) … 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winners … went through… Continue reading The Poor Always Pay Back book review
China Shakes The World: The Rise of A Hungry Nation by James Kynge I picked up this book to increase my understanding of how things work inside of the fast-growing economy and most populist country in the world. Kynge was the China Bureau Chief for the Financial Times from 1998 to 2005 providing him a… Continue reading China Shakes The World book review
The Trouble With Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn’t Working by Robert Calderisi If you care about a hopeful future of Africa, you’ll want to read different perspectives to make sure that you’re getting the whole story. Calderisi tells about his experience working for much of his 30+ years in international development (mostly in Africa and… Continue reading The Trouble with Africa book review
In Defense of Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati Jagdish Bhagwati, an economist specializing in international trade and a professor at Columbia University, has written a very indepth book arguing that economic globalization overall has (and is having) a tremendous positive impact on the poor. He looks closely at the many critiques and perceptions of globalization and… Continue reading In Defense of Globalization book review
Guns, for sale Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies By Jared Diamond This is not per se a book on poverty. The reason I list it here though is that if you want to get a non-Western, cialis Judeo/Christian perspective of how human history might have developed and why certain people groups prospered… Continue reading Guns, Germs and Steel book review
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 Boy, has this book started a lot of controversy in the international aid community. You’ve even got Nicholas Kristoff writing an oped piece in the New York Times in response to… Continue reading The White Man’s Burden book review
Untouchables: My Family’s Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India by Narendra Jadhav If you want to understand India and how to be effective in accelerating impact on poverty there, you need to understand the caste (pronounced “cast”) system and how it affects how the vast majority of people think in India. … Continue reading Untouchables book review
The Fortune At The Bottom of The Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C.K. Prahalad Professor Prahalad, story a respected business management consultant, shares results from in-depth case studies developed by his MBA students on how some multi-national organizations are targeting the world’s poor with specific products and services and the consequences. If you think… Continue reading The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid book review
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times. So, recipe he gets to talk with lots of people around the world from the most senior government officials to academics to business leaders. His book The Lexus and the… Continue reading The World is Flat book review
The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji This is one of the most different and interesting books I’ve read in a long time. Manji is a gay, practicing muslim who grew up in Vancouver, Canada (my home town) and now lives in Toronto, Canada. She is… Continue reading The Trouble with Islam Today book review
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