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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- 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...
- Sam Gardner on African Tourism projects: great potential or white elephants? : Of course, every income counts for a developing country,...
- Henning on African Tourism projects: great potential or white elephants? : Bill, what do you think about poverty being part of the...
- Andrew on African Tourism projects: great potential or white elephants? : I think the big problem with Mole is the lack of big cats. If...
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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 14 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 10 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: climate change
Climate Blowback: What I didn’t say was not what I didn’t mean not to say
My post criticizing Sachs on climate change got many negative responses yesterday. The main problem was that I was much too terse about an issue that people care a lot about (you should probably apply a “weekend discount” to things I post on weekends!). So some understandably jumped to conclusions about what I was saying, which were inaccurate.
Honestly, I know very little about climate change. But I do know a…
Debating Sachs: the Next Generation
I am reluctant these days to post any criticisms of Jeff Sachs, since I know many people are tired of this never-ending back and forth. But I make an exception when my own daughter asks me to take him on.
I want to protect her privacy and not involve her directly in what is at times a nasty debate, so let me just says she is a college junior who has studied and thought a lot about the…