The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

Why economists' attempts to help poorer countries improve their economic well-being have failed.

• Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
• Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
• Economic Growth (3rd Edition)
• The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
• Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
• Development as Freedom
• The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else