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  • Published: 20 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141924335
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
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How The West Was Lost

Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead




Another radical intervention from the provocative author of Dead Aid

How the West was Lost charts how over the last 50 years the most advanced and advantaged countries of the world have squandered their dominant position through a sustained catalogue of fundamentally flawed economic policies. It is these decisions that, along the way, have resulted in an economic and geo-political see-saw, which is now poised to tip in favour of the emerging world.

By forging closer ties with the emerging economies, rethinking trade barriers, overhauling their tax systems to encourage savings rather than ravenous consumption, and specifically addressing the three essential ingredients for growth (capital, labour and technology) it might yet still be possible for the West to firmly get back in the race.

  • Published: 20 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141924335
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
Categories:

About the author

Dambisa Moyo

Dambisa Moyo is a Global Economist at an Investment Bank in London. She previously worked at the World Bank in Washington DC. A native of Zambia, Southern Africa, Dambisa holds a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University and a Masters from Harvard University.

Dambisa has spoken on issues of Aid, Debt and Poverty in developing countries at conferences including at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland in 2005.

Dambisa lives in London. Dead Aid is her first book.

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