Poverty

Recently in Newshour with Jim Leherer in PBS, there was a segment about poverty and they showed two contrasting books that talks about poverty...

One was "White Man's Burden" by NYU professor William Easterly and the other was "The End of Poverty" by Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs. The former book argues that the so called aid by "the West" is of not much use. The latter books basically says more aid is needed...

Here is an article "Can aid bring an end to poverty?" in BBC which talks more about this...