Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Aid to the Suffering World

William Easterly, of The White Man's Burden fame, has just started a blog on the market for development aid. His first entry discusses president Zoellick's recent proposal to have a small percentage of stimulus packages in the West be dedicated to aid for developing countries. Easterly argues that besides being unrealistic, this proposal does not offer any increased responsibility for how the money would be used. Read on.
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Posted by Simeon Djankov on January 29, 2009 in Aid in the crisis | Permalink | TrackBack (0)

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