Tag Archive for ‘development’

Un-Planning Development

AN INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM EASTERLY From Volume 5, Issue 1 – Winter 2010: Spotlight on Development. William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute. He is the author of several books, including The White Man’s Burden: How the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good.

Avoiding the Cardinal Sins of Foreign Aid

AN INTERVIEW WITH NANCY BIRDSALL From Volume 5, Issue 1 – Winter 2010: Spotlight on Development. Nancy Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global Development (CGD). CGD is an independent, nonprofit policy research organization that is dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality and to making globalization work for the poor.

Smart Aid and the Unchaining of Africa

AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE AYITTEY From Volume 5, Issue 1 – Winter 2010: Spotlight on Development. Ghanaian economist George Ayittey is the president of the Free Africa Foundation and a Distinguished Economist in Residence at American University in Washington, DC.

On How to Help the Bottom Billion

AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL COLLIER From Volume 5, Issue 1 – Winter 2010: Spotlight on Development. Paul Collier is a Professor of Economics at Oxford University, the Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and the author of Wars, Guns, and Votes and The Bottom Billion.

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