MixedThe GuardianNothing in Half the Sky: How to Change the World is new or news, although it is sometimes made to appear so ... The authors describe brutality towards women as 'a malignancy that is slowly gaining recognition as one of the paramount human rights problems of this century' ... In contemplating these horrors Kristof and WuDunn sometimes become downright owlish in their capacity for incomprehension ...authors have no critique of globalism to offer, nor do they appear to grasp how western economic power keeps the developing world too poor to develop ... Anyone who has endured the talkfests of the UN for decade after weary decade, and seen massive aid projects miss their mark and collapse in a welter of bad faith, will echo the authors' certainty that it is now down to ordinary people to do practical things for other ordinary people.
