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is problematic in the way that it often presupposes that the key to ending global poverty is more aid money rather than governance and bureaucracy.

White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (2006)William EasterlyEasterly, the 'anti-Jeff Sachs,' wrote this book to prick the swelled expectations of movements like the One Campaign that suggest that the key to ending global poverty is more aid money. While the work has been used as a bludgeon by the anti-aid political Right, Easterly's focus on challenges like governance and bureaucracy should be required reading.

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