About Aid Watch
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.
“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.” - H.L. Mencken
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- J. on Could aid revive business instead of stamping it out?: Talking a bit off the top of my head here… As I remember it, the...
- Lorenzo from Oz on When financial crises are devastating to a country’s long-run prospects: Carmen’s (1) and (2) categories...
- Dan Kyba on When financial crises are devastating to a country’s long-run prospects: A second opinion never hurts. When conducting...
- Ehui on African Tourism projects: great potential or white elephants? : About the pedophiles , I am not sure whether the Ghana Tourist...
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Bill Easterly tweets
- When financial crises ARE devastating to a country's long run prospects (Q&A with Carmen Reinhart) http://bit.ly/a55V1d about 15 hours ago from bitly
- African tourism great potential vs. white elephant? This time the comments are better than the original post. http://bit.ly/cRc8l4 about 16 hours ago from bitly
- @BloomsburyUSA yes 08:15:26 PM July 28, 2010 from Twittelatorin reply to BloomsburyUSA
- African Tourism projects: great potential or white elephants? http://bit.ly/cRc8l4 05:47:56 PM July 28, 2010 from bitly
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 6 hours 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 11 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 11 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
Tag Archives: 3Ds
The “smart power” military-industrial complex takes off
What do Lockheed Martin Corp, Northrop Grumman Corp, and L-3 Communications Inc. have in common?
Yes, all are top 10 Pentagon contractors. But they are also increasingly winning lucrative government contracts to implement “smart power” or “nation-building” programs—like educating peacekeeping troops in human-rights law, sending anthropologists to Afghanistan to understand local culture, mentoring Liberian prosecutors to combat corruption and crime, and rebuilding airports and government ministries.
Hillary Clinton and others in the administration have helped…
Posted in Aid policies and approaches, In the news, Military aid
Also tagged Africa, smart power, Wall Street Journal
9 Comments
Worst in Aid: The Grand Prize
Hillary Clinton recently declared: “We are working to elevate development and integrate it more closely with defense and diplomacy in the field…The three Ds must be mutually reinforcing.”
Clinton says that the 3D approach will elevate development to the level of diplomacy and defense. Unfortunately, it could instead lower development further to an instrument employed to achieve military or political priorities. Clinton foresaw these objections: “There is a concern that integrating development means diluting it or politicizing…
Posted in Military aid, Trade
Also tagged Africa, AGOA, best and worst, military intervention, USAID
34 Comments
New UN report says Somali food aid failing to reach the poor (NYT)
Rather than reaching the needy, up to half of Somalia’s food aid ends up in the pockets of radical militants, corrupt bureaucrats and local businessmen, and local UN staff, according to an article in yesterday’s New York Times on the findings of a new UN report.
The report, which has not yet been made public but was shown to The New York Times by diplomats, outlines a host of problems so grave that it
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