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Western aid and Ebola
Shikha Dalmia of the Reason Foundation explores the unintended consequences of Western aid on the Ebola crisis. President Obama is sending military personnel and $750 million to Liberia and other…
William Easterly
American development economist
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Re: ‘celebrity musicians can’t feed the world’
Mitch’s earlier post of economist William Easterly’s Slate column made me think of one celebrity musician who gets it. I’ve earlier put U2 frontman Bono’s recent comments on entrepreneurship up…
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Slate readers get a dose of reality
Economist William Easterly explains in a Slate column why “celebrity musicians can’t feed the world.” Insulting stereotypes of Africans are at the heart of why celebrity famine relief gets the…
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The negative impact of African aid
Anyone who remembers William Easterly‘s 2009 Pope Lecture at N.C. State University will find nothing surprising about the latest Barron’s cover story, in which Paul Theroux discusses the problems caused…
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N.C. State’s annual Pope lecture to feature economist Zingales
This forum has noted on more than one occasion an interesting book from University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales titled A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of…
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Aid to Africa
Want to help starving Africans? Think in business terms, rather than “international aid.” It’s a message June Arunga shares in Tom Palmer’s new book, The Morality of Capitalism. Arunga is…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Gates’ ideas OK, Easterly’s are better
A new Fortune profile (not yet posted online) focuses on Bill Gates protégé Raj Shah’s efforts to shore up a notoriously poor-performing federal agency: In 2007, Gates said of global…
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Maybe she should stick to international aid analysis
Economist Dambisa Moyo atttracted much well-deserved publicity for her conclusions about the ineffectiveness of most government-based international aid ? conclusions that mirrored those of White Man?s Burden author William Easterly.…
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Borders discusses Easterly and foreign aid
The latest Ideas Matter update from Max Borders includes an item on William Easterly, the economist who has shed light on the problems associated with traditional foreign aid: Easterly has…
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The persistence of global poverty
Readers of the latest Commentary have the chance to read an exchange between Nicholas Eberstadt and William Easterly on the ongoing problems associated with global poverty. (Here?s the subscriber link.)…
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Do charter cities make sense for boosting poor countries?
Sebastian Mallaby, writing in The Atlantic, invokes the 12th-century example of Lubeck as he searches for historical precedents for the charter city concept Stanford economist Paul Romer is pushing as…
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New program highlights the fight against global poverty
The standard, government-endorsed strategy for fighting world poverty relies on government-to-government development aid. In other words, the federal government sends some of your tax dollars to regimes that run poor…