The White Man's Burden, William Easterly, Penguin Books.

The full title of this book is "The White Man's Burden : Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good" where William Easterly contrasts the approaches proposed by Jefferey Sachs in the book suggestion I made earlier. It is not a smackdown, but the author builds another strategic platform of statistical analyses.