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Bill Easterly

Innovation Improves Quality of Life Even When Incomes Lag

Dennis Whittle | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Innovation, William-Easterly, Developing World, Progress, Bill Easterly, Developing Countries, Childrens' Vaccines, Income Disparity, Tetanus, Economic Growth for Developing Countries, Technology, International Aid, Vaccines, World News
Dennis Whittle

The standard of living in developing countries has increased much faster than growth in income because of innovation, which has driven down the cost of goods and services.

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Don't Just Do Something - Sit There!

Dennis Whittle | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: Nancy Birdsall, Bill Easterly, Internation Aid, Globalgiving, Paul Collier, World News
Dennis Whittle

Some interventions can make things worse, via the law of unintended consequences. The larger the intervention, the more severe the possible negative consequences.

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Sir Bob Geldof, Bono, Jeff Sachs and Bill Easterly Should Lead on the Reform of the Levers of Foreign Assistance

Sunil Chacko | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Bono, Jeff Sachs, Foreign Assistance, Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Easterly, Sir Bob Geldof, Silvio Berlusconi, World Bank, World News
Sunil Chacko

Leading lights of the aid movement -- Geldof, Bono, Sachs and Easterly -- continue to bicker with politicians and amongst themselves without taking a visible role in reform of the levers of assistance.

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The Academic Man's Burden

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Africa, Jeffrey Sachs, Business School, Marshall Plan, Bill Easterly, Economics, Economy, Subsaharan Africa, Bretton Woods, Paul Collier, United Nations, League of Nations, Academia, Politics News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Academics are laggards, eternal followers that lack the ability to innovate and continue to inhabit a world of quantitative models oftentimes not descriptive of today's reality.

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Words Apart

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Poverty, Africa, Millenium-Challenge-Corporation, Usaid, Jeffrey Sachs, Bill Easterly, Microfinance, Branko Milanovic, Malagasy-Red-Cross, Hernando De Soto, Financial Crisis, Muhammad Yunus, Business News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Microfinance's intellectual debate could be healthy but it oftentimes ends up in intellectual wars that forsake the ultimate goal: the alleviation of extreme poverty.

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Sachsterly

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, Economics, John Maynard Keynes, Marshall Plan, Microfinance, Bill Easterly, Global Poverty, Dambisa Moyo, World News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

The rescue of the bottom billion is only a reality if Mr. Sachs and Mr. Easterly put their outstanding intellectual skills to work instead of trying to win a debate that academics will perpetuate so long as they exist.

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Back to Sachs: Astrology, Despotism, and Africa

William Easterly | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Jeffrey Sachs, Geography, Poverty, Economics, Health, Africa, Democracy, Bill Easterly, Fighting Malaria, World News
William Easterly

Calling 63 countries "potentially well governed" is like saying Paris Hilton is potentially a virgin; ignoring bad government is a formula for the same kind of bad aid policy that produced decades of failure.

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No Need to Oversimplify Poverty

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Poverty, Geography, Economics, Bill Easterly, Paul Collier, Africa, Corruption, Adam Smith, World News
Jeffrey Sachs

Sub-Saharan Africa faces a constellation of special challenges, with greater or lesser impact in different parts of the region. These challenges should be addressed forthrightly and in an integrated manner.

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How Much of Your Brainpower Are You Using?

Dennis Whittle | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

Read More: White Man's Burden, Poverty, Bill Easterly, Globalgiving, World Bank, Video, World News
Dennis Whittle

Below is a clip where I talk about how much brainpower is wasted in top-down hierarchical systems like the World Bank.

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What Happens When One Man Takes on the System

Dennis Whittle | Posted 02.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: White Man's Burden, Poverty, Development, Bill Easterly, International Aid, Globalgiving, Entertainment News
Dennis Whittle

Check out the trailer for the coming documentary for The White Man's Burden, a book by Bill Easterly. The movie is coming out in 2010, and I urge you to read the book in 2009.

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