When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert

The subtitle reads How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor and Yourself.

This book introduces the reader to principles and practices of poverty alleviation at the household and community level. It describes a number of tools, techniques, interventions and processes that churches and ministries can use to work with materially poor people more effectively including the poor in your community and the poor on the other side of the world.