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Development as Freedom
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4.10 avg rating — 7,049 ratings
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
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3.85 avg rating — 7,956 ratings
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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4.09 avg rating — 60,182 ratings
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
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4.27 avg rating — 23,921 ratings
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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4.20 avg rating — 87,855 ratings
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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4.28 avg rating — 55,504 ratings
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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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3.84 avg rating — 5,640 ratings
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
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3.69 avg rating — 11,205 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 448,129 ratings
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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
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3.70 avg rating — 8,201 ratings
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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4.42 avg rating — 7,909 ratings
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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4.21 avg rating — 6,569 ratings
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
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4.26 avg rating — 10,919 ratings
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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4.06 avg rating — 34,014 ratings
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The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
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3.96 avg rating — 1,646 ratings
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The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
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3.93 avg rating — 1,454 ratings
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Fault Lines: Views across Haiti's Divide
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4.27 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Shake Hands with the Devil
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4.25 avg rating — 13,673 ratings
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Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty
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4.11 avg rating — 548 ratings
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More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty
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3.95 avg rating — 992 ratings
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
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4.12 avg rating — 10,353 ratings
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
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3.87 avg rating — 1,359 ratings
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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4.13 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
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4.26 avg rating — 872 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.29 avg rating — 52,419 ratings
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Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World
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3.88 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho
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4.28 avg rating — 639 ratings
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
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4.27 avg rating — 4,821 ratings
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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
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3.87 avg rating — 524 ratings
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Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security
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3.76 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
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3.94 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
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4.21 avg rating — 1,394 ratings
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The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
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4.12 avg rating — 1,851 ratings
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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
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3.95 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
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Globalization and its Discontents
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3.87 avg rating — 8,132 ratings
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Bike Riding in Kabul: The Global Adventures of a Foreign Aid Practitioner
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4.17 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
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4.15 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
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3.76 avg rating — 915 ratings
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Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
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4.11 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
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Lords of Poverty
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3.82 avg rating — 389 ratings
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War Games: The Story Of Aid And War In Modern Times
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4.05 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument
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3.87 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Chasing Misery: an anthology of essays by women in humanitarian responses
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3.92 avg rating — 117 ratings
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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
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3.76 avg rating — 1,278 ratings
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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
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4.04 avg rating — 501 ratings
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Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs
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3.98 avg rating — 1,891 ratings
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Famine Crimes: Politics & the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa
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4.18 avg rating — 115 ratings
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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3.88 avg rating — 34,514 ratings
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Girl Power in the Age of the Millennials: Essays on Women, Youth and Global Social Change
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3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Euro is Dead; Long Live the Solid!: A Proposal for a New Monetary System for the Eurozone
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
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3.94 avg rating — 7,324 ratings
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The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
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3.99 avg rating — 7,093 ratings
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A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India
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4.28 avg rating — 2,684 ratings
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How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
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4.31 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
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4.20 avg rating — 2,063 ratings
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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4.17 avg rating — 15,233 ratings
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The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
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4.62 avg rating — 3,725 ratings
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3 Earthquakes, 1 Coup d'état and a Handful of Revolutions
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Eleven
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4.29 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
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4.15 avg rating — 215 ratings
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When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics
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3.90 avg rating — 304 ratings
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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
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4.20 avg rating — 13,944 ratings
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The Promise of World Peace: To the Peoples of the World
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4.76 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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4.31 avg rating — 26,581 ratings
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The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,580 ratings
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The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
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4.40 avg rating — 837 ratings
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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
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4.20 avg rating — 5,648 ratings
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The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War
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3.30 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Aid Chain: Coercion and Commitment in Development NGOs
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places
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3.86 avg rating — 852 ratings
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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
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4.12 avg rating — 1,452 ratings
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
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4.35 avg rating — 4,843 ratings
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Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital
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4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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4.21 avg rating — 25,980 ratings
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High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid
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4.28 avg rating — 735 ratings
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Catching Up: What LDCs Can Do, and How Others Can Help
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Africa Doesn't Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It
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3.90 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink
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3.92 avg rating — 344 ratings
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World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Managing the Nonprofit Organization: Principles and Practices
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3.99 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
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Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook (World Bank Training Series)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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What Works in Development?: Thinking Big and Thinking Small
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3.72 avg rating — 58 ratings
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World Development Report 2013: Jobs
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Trust: The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity
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3.96 avg rating — 737 ratings
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Humanitarian Intervention: Confronting the Contradictions
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa
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3.58 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa
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3.84 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development (Initiative for Policy Dialogue Series C)
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3.59 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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4.09 avg rating — 98,501 ratings
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The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
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3.59 avg rating — 428 ratings
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How Europe and America Are Still Underdeveloping Africa: Neocolonialism and the Scramble for Strategic Resources in 21st Century Africa
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Woman's Role in Economic Development
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4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa
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3.80 avg rating — 453 ratings
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The Barefoot Guide to working with Organizations and Social Change
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The History of Development
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Viva Colores: A Salute to the Indomitable People of Guatemala
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Celebrating Women
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon
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4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World
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4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
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