Comments on: What Can Foreign Aid Do For the World’s Poor? http://www.cato-unbound.org Big Ideas for a Better World Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Daniel W. Drezner http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/what-can-foreign-aid-do-for-the-worlds-poor/comment-page-1/#comment-268 Daniel W. Drezner Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:41:31 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/what-can-foreign-aid-do-for-the-worlds-poor/#comment-268 <strong>Trade, development... and free ponies!!</strong> The latest Cato Unbound features New York University's William Easterly, author of The White Man's Burden, on "Why Doesn't Aid Work?" There will also be reaction essays from the World Bank's Branko Milanovic, Deepak Lal of UCLA, and the Center... Trade, development… and free ponies!!

The latest Cato Unbound features New York University’s William Easterly, author of The White Man’s Burden, on “Why Doesn’t Aid Work?” There will also be reaction essays from the World Bank’s Branko Milanovic, Deepak Lal of UCLA, and the Center…

]]> By: William Easterley versus the World (Bank) | humanitarian.info http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/what-can-foreign-aid-do-for-the-worlds-poor/comment-page-1/#comment-263 William Easterley versus the World (Bank) | humanitarian.info Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:29:41 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/what-can-foreign-aid-do-for-the-worlds-poor/#comment-263 [...] This week the Cato Institute (Full disclosure: I don’t share their politics, but draw your own conclusions) is running a series of articles entitled What Can Foreign Aid Do For the World’s Poor? The series is spearheaded by William Easterly, and if you recognise his name, you can probably guess what the Cato Institute thinks about aid. Unfortunately they’ve disabled comments, although the Institute urges readers to “enter into the conversation on their own websites, blogs, and even in good old-fashioned bound publications.” I find this quite comic, since it basically limits the conversation to people who have websites, blog and (?) publications - if you had a conversation like that in the real world, there’d be a very limited number of participants. Luckily I have all three. [...] [...] This week the Cato Institute (Full disclosure: I don’t share their politics, but draw your own conclusions) is running a series of articles entitled What Can Foreign Aid Do For the World’s Poor? The series is spearheaded by William Easterly, and if you recognise his name, you can probably guess what the Cato Institute thinks about aid. Unfortunately they’ve disabled comments, although the Institute urges readers to “enter into the conversation on their own websites, blogs, and even in good old-fashioned bound publications.” I find this quite comic, since it basically limits the conversation to people who have websites, blog and (?) publications – if you had a conversation like that in the real world, there’d be a very limited number of participants. Luckily I have all three. [...]

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