Books!
If you have lots of extra money and time, here's my wish list.
16.08.2007
Rieff, David. A bed for the night: humanitarianism in Crisis. 2002
Achebe, Chinua. "An Image of Africa" (essay)
Okri, Ben. The Famished Road.
Couto, Mia. Under the Frangipani
"Kwani?" Magazine (any issue)
Wainaina, Binyavanga. Discovering Home (2008) and "How to write about Africa" in Granta (2007)
Institutions, Instituitional Change and Economic Performance. Douglas North. Cambridge U Press 1990
Lawlessness and Economics: Altearnative Models. Dixit. Princeton U Press 2004
Reinventing the Bazaar: A natural history of Markets. McMillian, John. New york, Norton. 2002
The Fortune at the bottom of the Pyramid; eradicating poverty thru profits. Prahalad, CK.
Also, any econ books on remittance income. Foucault on development as "sanitization" and anything on relative speed of technological innovation vs/and adaption before and after the steam engine.
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