William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University, Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Economics. His latest book is The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. (November 2010)
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Free Eskinder Nega!
August 16, 2012
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The Case of Eskinder Nega
January 12, 2012
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Aid For Scoundrels
April 28, 2011
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Foreign Aid for Scoundrels
November 25, 2010
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‘The Anarchy of Success’
November 19, 2009
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The Anarchy of Success
October 8, 2009
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by Leonard Mlodinow
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang
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‘Foreign Aid Goes Military!’
July 2, 2009
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Foreign Aid Goes Military!
December 4, 2008
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
by Paul Collier
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How, and How Not, to Stop AIDS in Africa
August 16, 2007
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS
by Helen Epstein
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‘The White Man’s Burden’
January 11, 2007
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Why Are We Supporting Repression in Ethiopia?
November 15, 2010
Foreign aid observers have often worried that Western aid to Africa is propping up autocratic regimes. Yet seldom has such a direct link from aid to political repression been demonstrated as in “Development without Freedom,” an extensively documented new report on Ethiopia by Human Rights Watch.
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William Easterly on Foreign Aid Militarization
December 1, 2008