How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead
Author(s): Dambisa Moyo
"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.
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Dambisa Moyo's is the critically acclaimed author of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is Another Way for Africa, and was chosen as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2009. She holds a PhD in Economics from Oxford University and a Masters from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and has worked at the World Bank and Goldman Sachs. She was born and raised in Lusaka, Zambia.
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Allen Lane
- : 0.32
- : 01 January 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 January 2011
- : books
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- : 240
- : 338.9
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- : Paperback
- : Dambisa Moyo