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Cover courtesy of Moody Publishers

When Helping Hurts

How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor... and Yourself

by Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert

Publication

Date published
2009

The Physical Book

Binding
Paperback
ISBN-13
9780802457059
LCCN
2009009076

Reference

Notes
Two economists at Covenant College's Chalmers Center arguing that well-meant relief given where development is needed does harm, and that the poverty in view is as much a matter of broken relationships as of material want. Foreword by John M. Perkins. Neither Moody's page nor the Library of Congress record gives a page count for this 2009 first edition.

Contents

  • 1. Why Did Jesus Come to Earth?
  • 2. What's the Problem?
  • 3. Are We There Yet?
  • 4. Not All Poverty Is Created Equal
  • 5. Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, and Their Assets
  • 6. McDevelopment: Over 2.5 Billion People Not Served
  • 7. Doing Short-Term Missions without Doing Long-Term Harm
  • 8. Yes, in Your Backyard
  • 9. And to the Ends of the Earth