How The West Was Lost represents a radical wake-up call to a complacent elite. Dambisa Moyo charts how over the last 50 years the most advanced and advantaged countries of the world have squandered their dominant position.
Bad decisions by Western world leaders have resulted in an economic and geo-political decline, which is now poised to tip irreversibly in favour of China and other emerging economies.
The future for the West looks bleak. However, Moyo outlines the stark choices that political leaders will need to make if they are to stem the tide. By forging closer ties with the emerging economies, and many more strategies, it might yet still be possible for the West to get back in the race.

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"Provocative ... a double-barrelled shotgun of a book." – The Daily Mail on Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid