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Friday, February 17th, 2006
The West Can’t Save Africa
William Easterly has a piece in Monday’s Washington Post about the failure of development aid to help Africa. I’m just finishing Easterly’s previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, which is very compelling. This article, however, is a little over the top in its efforts to provoke. Easterly writes:
The West’s focus on sensational tragedies [...]
