Description: A critical look at how a non-traditional, technocratic development industry is failing the societies it professes to help
Brief description: Katy Gardner is professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and is the author of several books including Discordant Development and Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh.
Review Quotes: "Ameliorates the despair which students of development often feel once they come to understand the complexity, and the vested interests, of the aid industry."-- "LSE Magazine"