What One Can Read about the MDGs
from Lallie Lloyd
Looking for a way to tell your family, friends, and acquaintances about ONE and the issues of extreme poverty and global disease? Try suggesting a book that will introduce them to the issues.
You could also use this list to supplement what you are doing in your congregation, on your campus, in your community..
What Can One Person Do by Sabina Alkire and Edmund Newell. The best primer on the MDGs. A great mix of information, stories, statistics, prayers, resources, practical ideas and discussion questions. Perfect for individual or group study.
On the Move by Bono Based upon his 2006 National Prayer Breakfast speech, his inspiring words, combined with pictures from his travels in Africa makes this book a great introduction to the crisis of extreme poverty and how to get involved.
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs Economist Jeffrey Sachs outlines the various issues that contribute to the poverty trap of the one billion people that live on less than $1 a day as well as some cheap and easy solutions to address the problem. Many ONE volunteers say this book moved them to join the ONE Campaign.
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly Easterly’s response to Sachs’ ideas. A good book to read to learn the arguments against increasing the money we spend in humanitarian aid to help the world’s poor.
Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz Covers how western governments and international financial institutions can reform to be more equitable to the rest of the world. Includes the concepts of debt, fair trade, and more.
In the Shadow of Just Wars by Medecins Sans Frontieres A collection of essays that cover’s the international response to a dozen humanitarian crises – and the successes and failures of each response.
Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works by Stephen C. Smith. Smith outlines the issues related to poverty and what readers can do to help overcome the crisis.
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner’s memoir about his experiences with microcredit with the Grameen Bank.
The Debt Threat: How Debt Is Destroying the Developing World...and Threatening Us All by Noreena Hertz
Fair Trade: Market-Driven Ethical Consumption by Alex Nicholls and Charlotte Opal
Tapped Out by Paul SimonThe former, late Senator for Illinois outlines the global water crisis and how it will affect us in the United States.
Development as Freedom by Amartya SenSen outlines the argument that civic and political freedoms are necessary for development to be sustainable.
The aWAKE Project : Uniting against the African AIDS Crisis by Various ContributorsA collection of essays from prominent personalities on why they were called to action in the AIDS crisis.Contributors include: Nelson Mandela, Senator Bill Frist, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Jeffrey Sachs, JesseHelms, Kofi Annan, Out of Eden, Dikembe Mutombo, President George W. Bush, and Danny Glover.
The Skeptics Guide to the Global AIDS Crisis: Tough Questions, Direct Answers by Dale Hanson Bourke
Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference by Shannon Daley-Harris and others (2007, published by Berrett Koehler) The book describes the urgency and mobilizing power of the MDGs and emphasizes learning, contributing, serving and living as every-day activities where we continuously make choices – choices that can be informed by a commitment to end poverty. Click here to read additional notes on this book from Lallie Lloyd
