Books

• Bottom Billion - Paul Collier
• Dead Aid - Dambisa Moyo
• Out of Poverty - Paul Polak
• The End of Poverty - Jeffrey Sachs
• The Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley
• White Man’s Burden - William Easterly
• Money Well Spent - Paul Brest and Hal Harvey

Blogs, research and stuff

• Aid Watch - a project of NYU's Development Research Institute and pincipally written by William Easterly

• Design for (Real) Social Impact - Kevin Starr from Mulago presenting at IIT Design Research Conference 2010
• GiveWell - an independent, non-profit charity evaluator
• Humanosphere - blog about global health and the fight against poverty

• Innovations for Poverty Action - applies rigorous research techniques to develop and test solutions to real problems faced by the poor in developing countries
• Money For Good - initiative from Hope Consulting to understand the behaviours and motivations of affluent Americans with respect to impact investing and charity giving