Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity

ISBN-13: 9781905211371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str.

Ha-Joon Chang

Opis

Argues that in theory the world's wealthiest countries and supra-national institutions like the IMF, World Bank and WTO want to see all nations developing into modern industrial societies. This book describes that in practice, though, those at the top are 'kicking away the ladder' to wealth that they themselves climbed.