 | The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $4.87 The forword written by Bono. This almost says it all, Jeffery Sachs is one of the leading forces behind the UN's Millenium goals. Grand, and some says, unachivable goals for the world to erridicate hunger and poverty.
Jeffery Sachs is the director of Earth institute and has worked with the World Bank during a longer time.
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 | The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Grove Art) by Paul Collier
Buy new: $23.94 / Used from: $12.74 Paul Collier has worked at the World Bank but has now turned his attention to the links between politics and economical development.
Drawing from results within political science he paint a picture of why the poorest of the poor, mainly found in Sub-Saharan Africa, are still there.
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 | Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.49 A tad too philosphical and non-practial for my taste, but largely influencail on economic development thinking.
Amartya Sen has recived the Nobel Peace Prize and is clearly well read within economics, one of his great heros being Adam Smith.
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 | Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $14.78 Haven't read it yet but the argument is to go along the anit-aid lines - aid has hurt the developing world than it has helped. What is needed is normal financial investment in local entrepreneurs and firms.
Dambisa Moyo is a financial economist who grew up in Africa before going on to prestigous universities in the US.
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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: $11.05 / Used from: $7.31 |
 | The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics by William R. Easterly
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $11.00 |
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