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.
Lords of Poverty is a case study in betrayals of a public trust. The shortcomings of aid are numerous, and serious enough to raise questions about the viability of the practice at its most fundamental levels. Hancock's report is thorough, deeply shocking, and certain to cause critical reevaluation--of the government's motives in giving foreign aid, and of the true needs of our intended beneficiaries.
Graham Hancock was the East Africa correspondent for "The EcGraham Hancock was the East Africa correspondent for "The Economist" and is the author of several previous books on Afrionomist" and is the author of several previous books on Africa and the Third World. He lives in Devonshire, England. ca and the Third World. He lives in Devonshire, England.
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