From today’s NYT
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The Aid Watch blog is a project of New York University's Development Research Institute (DRI). This blog is principally written by William Easterly, author of "The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics" and "The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good," and Professor of Economics at NYU. It is co-written by Laura Freschi and by occasional guest bloggers. Our work is based on the idea that more aid will reach the poor the more people are watching aid.
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- When financial crises ARE devastating to a country's long run prospects (Q&A with Carmen Reinhart) http://bit.ly/a55V1d about 8 hours ago from bitly
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Aid Watch tweets
- RT @MollyKinder Pew Pakistan poll: US still hated, economic worries more intense, and confusion over US aid. http://tiny.cc/4p7kv. about 23 minutes ago from web
- Today's post: When financial crises ARE devastating to a country's long run prospects (Q&A with Carmen Reinhart) http://bit.ly/a55V1d about 4 hours ago from web
- RT @intldogooder Have been pulling together links on existing aid reform efforts here: http://www.how-matters.org/links-resources/ about 5 hours ago from web
- Today's post: African Tourism projects: great potential or white elephants? http://bit.ly/cRc8l4 06:24:49 PM July 28, 2010 from web
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Haha!
Discussion on Twitter from@joshuafoust:
1. Wow… that graphic is so wrong it’s almost mendaciously misleading.
2. New post: Ghilzais and Durranis, Sittin’ in a Tree – http://is.gd/7qNFy
There’s an old line about Russia: “it’s a country about which it is impossible to write the truth.”
Probably applies to a lot of American analysis of many countries very different from USA.
Oh ho ho ho ho ho.
Ahem, professor Easterly. Josh wrote a good post about why that graphic is misleading. You should excerpt his response, given your very obvious lack of understanding about this subject.
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