We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig deep into our pockets. Yet what happens to all this aid? Why after 50 years and $2.3 trillion are there still children dying for lack of twelve cents medicine? Why are there so many people still living on less than $1 a day without clean water, food, sanitation, shelter, education or medicine? In The White Man's Burden William Easterly, acclaimed author and former economist at the World Bank, addresses these twin tragedies head on. While recognising the energy and compassion behind the campaign to make poverty history he argues urgently and powerfully that grand plans and good intentions are a part of the problem not the solution. Giving aid is not enough, we must ensure that it reaches the people who need it most and the only way to make this happens is through accountability and by learning from past experiences. Without claiming to have all the answers, William Easterly chastises the complacent and patronising attitude of the West that attempts to impose solutions from above. In this book, which is by turns angry, moving, irreverent but always rigorous, he calls on each and everyone of us to take responsibility, whether donors, aid workers or ordinary citizens, so that more aid reaches the people it is supposed to help, the mother who cannot feed her children, the little girl who has to collect firewood rather than go to school, the father who cannot work because he has been crippled by war.
發表於2025-02-02
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我是先看同事的英文版,然後得知齣瞭中文版,欣然購之。 這本書的小標題是《為什麼西方的援助總是收效甚微》,作為一個發展工作者來說,很希望知道作者是如何談的,看有沒有什麼我,或者中國可以藉鑒的。 讀完後,我覺得這本書寫得太學術瞭。因為作者隻看到瞭問題的錶麵,或...
評分William Easterly在<The white man's burden>一書的開篇提齣一個問題"why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good?"為什麼西方數年超過萬億美元的非洲援助依然不能改變非洲的現狀?貧窮,疾病,戰火···從來沒有從那片土地上消失過。...
評分這本書的翻譯是場災難,以至於我腦子裏竟然蹦齣來“詰屈聱牙”這個我十年沒用過的成語。 “亞的斯亞貝巴的城市市場上非洲最大的露天市場。這裏不缺市場。我到該市場去給孩子們買手工藝品。” 這種翻譯災難現場處處可見,我幾乎看到一個高中生英語水平的譯者拿著一手稿子一手詞...
評分現在在英國上學。看到瞭稻草人在這本書下的評論,有感而發。 稻草人的“陰謀論”雖然有點濃,但確實是關於援助一種批判思想。我說的不是中國學界,而是西方學界自己認為的。類似觀點還有《援助的死亡》,最近比較火的。認為由於機構本身存在維持自己生存的動因,援助國援助也是...
評分本書的作者詳細的記述瞭白人的西方富裕國傢對有色人種的貧窮國傢的援助,從幾個方麵分析瞭成功與失敗的原因,包括外國的援助的大計劃和低效率、接受國的政局動蕩和腐敗橫行、國際組織的好大喜功和後殖民主義的僞善野蠻等等…… 作者把援助失敗和成功的主要原因歸結為計劃者和調...
圖書標籤: 經濟學 發展經濟學 對外援助 發展 WilliamEasterly 經濟 development 後殖民主義
Easterly的文風讓人覺得舒服,論點也讓人無法反駁啊!
評分寫的很好,discuss the reasons why western aids are so inefficient (the top-bottom approach) and provide some possible solutions.
評分大臉怪蜀黍。。。
評分發展研究經典著作。伊斯特利點齣西方援助失敗的核心原因是缺乏責任與反饋機製,因此他贊成由下而上、且配有科學評估方法的小規模發展項目。每個argument都由對案例的分析發展而來,語言生動所以讀起來挺有意思的。
評分翻瞭第一章,感覺意見較中肯,但文風不喜……
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