The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

By Tomer Broude. 2007

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The roles of foreign aid and education in the war on terror (2008, result): “We thus found that aid can be pretty effective, and this stands in sharp contrast to the received wisdom from the so-called “aid-ineffectiveness” literature, which Easterly (2006) has recently surveyed.”
Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts (2020, unknown): “In light of the evidence, some scholars assert that aid plays a pivotal role in promoting economic development in the poorest countries (Sachs 2005), while others are highly skeptical (Easterly 2006).”
Recognizing Opportunities for Sustainable Development (2011, background): “Last but not least, there are numerous examples of where sustainable entrepreneurial action creates gains for investors, entrepreneurs, and economies (Easterly, 2006; Hart, 2005).”
The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation Across Local Communities (2010, unknown): “Too often they fail to “trickle down” to make a difference to the poor in local communities or they fail to address the root causes of the social ills they aim to address (Easterly, 2006; Peredo and Chrisman, 2006).”
Counting Chickens when they Hatch: Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth* (2012, unknown): “This transparency and consistency is essential in a literature that has been alternately described as marred by aid proponents confirmation bias (Easterly, 2006, p. 48) or described as marred by aid opponents selective reading of the empirical evidence (Hansen and Tarp, 2000, p. 393).”
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2017, background): “On the other hand, William Russell Easterly, another world famous development economist, brazenly contends that the West has failed, and continues to fail, to enact its ill-formed, utopian aid plans because, like the colonialists of old, it assumes it knows what is best for everyone.”
Are Aid Agencies Improving (2007, unknown): “Th ere is a long debate about how eff ective is foreign aid at creating economic development and eliminating poverty, going back to Rostow (1960), Chenery and Strout (1966), Bauer (1972), Cassen (1987), World Bank (1998), the UN Millennium Commission (2005), Sachs (2005), and Easterly (2006).”
Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice Don't Mix-Working Paper 336 (2013, unknown): “Easterly (2006) summarizes the dichotomy as “planners” and “searchers” but many other scholars, from different disciplines and with different politics, posit a similar dichotomy.1 Rodrik (2008) called the “new development economics” an approach of “experimentation” which emphasized the adaptation…”
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid (2008, background): “There have been fi erce debates about how effective this aid has been or could be in the future (for example, Sachs, 2005; Easterly, 2006).”
Can the West Save Africa (2008, unknown): “Easterly 2006 failed to fi nd evidence of this type for poverty traps at low initial income—the poorest quintile at the beginning of each period did not subsequently have signifi cantly lower growth rates than higher income strata.”
Innovation and entrepreneurship in India: Understanding jugaad (2015, unknown): “There are many instances in the development economics literature of top down initiatives that have had the benefit of money and technology but lacking knowledge and sensitivity to facts on the ground, have failed to achieve their objectives (Dunn, 1979; Easterly, 2006).”
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices (2011, unknown): “…to developing countries from 1960 through 2008, a substantial amount of the world remains in extreme poverty and stagnant growth1 ([Bauer, 2000], [Easterly, 2001, 2006] and [Moyo, 2009]).2 The aid community now emphasizes improved quality of the delivery and allocation of official aid as a…”