The debate over aid does not want to go away, but it is moving away from general statements about whether…
Three weeks ago I joked of a broken ceasefire of words between eminent development economists Bill Easterly and Jeffrey Sachs.…
Bill Easterly’s review of Nina Munk’s book, The Idealist, reignited the aid debate following a tweet by journalist Tristan McConnell. This is what followed:
You will remember from yesterday, that Bill Gates is not a fan of Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo (see below video).…
An interesting conversation took place in mid-July between Bill Easterly of NYU; Holden Karnofsky and Stephanie Wykstra of GiveWell; and…