The First World & the Third World: Essays on the New International Economic Order

 

Our six distinguished authors analyze the conventional wisdoms that obscure such urgent problems as the implicit admission of guilt in the Western response to the less developed nations, the lumping together of all Third World nations as though they were the same, and general misconceptions as to what sorts of aid might truly be helpful and would actually reach the poor people who need it rather than enriching the bureaucracies (or dictatorships) that rule most Third World countries.