The White Man's Burden Essay

William Easterly's The White Man's Burden is about what its author calls the twin tragedies of global poverty. The first, is that so many are seemingly fated to live horribly stunted, miserable lives and die such early deaths. The second is that after fifty years and more than $2.3 trillion in aid from the West to address the first tragedy, it has shockingly little to show for it. We'll never solve the first tragedy, Easterly argues, unless we figure out the second. The ironies are many: We preach a gospel of freedom and individual accountability, yet we intrude in the inner workings of other countries through bloated aid bureaucracies like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that are accountable to no one for the effects of their prescriptions. We take credit for the economic success stories of the last fifty years, like South Korea and Taiwan, when in

It states that planner announce good intentions but don’t motivate anyone to carry them out and they also raise expectations but take no responsibility for meeting them, they apply goalball blueprints and the never hear whether the plan got what I needed. Researchers find thing that work and get some reward, they also find out what the demand its, they adapt to local conditions and they find out the reality that is the bottom. All his arguments tell us what is going wrong in the way of western aid. He states that the future of western assistance the aim should be to make individuals better off not to transformed the governments. Aid the individuals not the governments. The focus must put back on the poorest people of the world to make sure they have the necessities they need to survive. "This is not making the poor dependent on handouts; it is giving the poorest people the health, nutrition, education, and other inputs that raise the payoff to their own efforts to better their lives."