The Aid Trap: Hard Truths about Ending Poverty

by William Duggan and R. Glenn Hubbard

Book Overview

Over the past twenty years more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty than anywhere else at any time in history. They accomplished this through the local business sector--the leading source of prosperity for all rich countries. In most of Africa and other poor regions the business sector is weak, but foreign aid continues to fund government and NGOs. Switching aid to the local business sector in order to cultivate a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231145624
• ISBN13: 9780231145626
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Columbia Business School Publishing
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher