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Lords of poverty : the power, prestige, and corruption of the international aid business / Graham Hancock.
Lippincott Library HC60 .H278 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hancock, Graham.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic assistance--Developing countries.
- Economic assistance.
- Developing countries.
- Non-governmental organizations--Corrupt practices--Developing countries.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- Non-governmental organizations--Corrupt practices.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 234 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Atlantic Monthly Press paperback edition.
- Other Title:
- Power, prestige, and corruption of the international aid business.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992, c1989.
- Summary:
- A comprehensive and controversial study of the 60-billion-dollar-a-year world foreign-aid business, Lords of Poverty was a bestseller in hardcover and earned the 1990 H.L. Mencken Award honorable mention for an outstanding book of journalism. Hancock investigates why huge aid projects often fail and demands a response from those in the industry.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC:
- 28627454
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