 | The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
Buy new: £6.53 / Used from: £4.36 Easy to read guide to why some countries fail to develop. A good place to start.
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 | The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence by Martin Meredith
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £5.04 Useful as a reference, to read up on the historical context.
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 | The End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happen in Our Lifetime by Jeffrey Sachs
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £4.49 Influential call to focus on the Millennium Development Goals.
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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 by William Easterly
Buy new: £5.79 / Used from: £4.37 Why aid hasn't worked, and the misguided nature of master plans for Africa.
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 | Banker to the Poor: The Story of the Grameen Bank by Mohammad Yunus
Buy new: £5.35 / Used from: £3.28 Learning from the Grameen Bank's pioneering microfinance in Bangladesh
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 | How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor by Erik S. Reinert
Buy new: £8.56 / Used from: £12.43 Why developing countries must be allowed to protect their markets.
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 | IOU: The Debt Threat and Why We Must Defuse It by Noreena Hertz
Buy used from: £0.01 Getting to grips with the debt issue.
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 | Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.50 Stiglitz's explosive insider's critique of the Washington institutions.
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 | Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C.K. Prahalad
Buy used from: £20.51 Serving the poor can still be profitable.
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 | Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
Buy new: £6.03 / Used from: £4.16 Most development focuses on economics - what if we consider freedom to be the chief aim of development?
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