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Poor By Design
Why Countries Remain Poor After 60 Years of U.S. Foreign Aid
AuthorAlfred P. Thorne
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherTerracentric Press LLC
Publication date
2012
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages311
ISBN0-393-05765-8
OCLC51817522
796.357/06/91
LC ClassGV880 .L49 2003

Poor By Design: Why Countries Remain Poor After 60 Years of U.S. Foreign Aid is a book by Alfred P. Thorne, published in 2012, about the erroneous assumptions behind U.S. foreign aid. It argues that large landlords play an important role in inhibiting economic development in poor countries. The book was originally written in 1982 and published in 2011 as U.S. Foreign Aid for the U.S.A.

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Haiti, India, Brazil, Iran, the Koreas, China, Indonesia, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guyana, the U.S., the Dominican Republic, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Malta, Singapore, Cyprus, Thailand, Bermuda, Chile, Bolivia, Mexico, Ethiopia, and Belize, Europe, Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, Caribbean island-countries, Sub-Saharan Africa, and other poor regions


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