The Development Trap: How Thinking Big Fails… by Adam D. Kis · Audiobook preview

PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAECaR0YHzM The Development Trap: How Thinking Big Fails the Poor Authored by Adam D. Kis Narrated by Christopher Ragland 0:00 Intro 0:03 The Development Trap: How Thinking Big Fails the Poor 0:14 Preface 14:06 PART 1: The case against poverty eradication 48:19 Outro #adamdkis #thedevelopmenttraphowthinkingbigfailsthepoor — GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS Find your next great read with Google Play Books. Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you. Get the iOS app: https://goo.gle/books-ios Get the Android app: https://goo.gle/books-android — BOOK DESCRIPTION A wave of optimism is sweeping through the international aid and development industry, championed by leaders such as Jeffrey Sachs and Jim Yong Kim, who believe that poverty eradication could be within our grasp. Yet in stark opposition come those who believe that all international development intervention is hegemonic, paternalistic, and neocolonialist and must be done away with. In this book, the author argues for a middle ground. Poverty is an entrenched, intractable problem that will never be entirely eradicated. However, if we reorientate our objectives in line with realistic goals that improve the way that poverty is confronted on a smaller scale, we can still continue the fight for meaningful change. Using rigorous scholarship illustrated with vivid storytelling and personal anecdotes from fighting against poverty in the field, The Development Trap argues that we need to make progress against poverty on the micro, rather than the macro scale. Instead of shooting for a single overarching end of poverty, our goals must be modest and reachable. — AUDIOBOOK DETAILS Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAECaR0YHzM Language: English Publisher: Tantor Media Inc Published on: July 7, 2026 ISBN: 9798318534966 Duration: 7 hr, 18 min Genres: Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness, Social Science / Philanthropy & Charity