The White Man's Burden

By William R. Easterly. 2006

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Investment Needs to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Understanding the Billions and Trillions (2015, background): “Needs assessments neglect economic growth: It is sometimes argued that needs assessments miss the most important development priority, which is to sustain economic growth (Easterly 2001, 2005, 2006a and 2006b).”
Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Pre-Analysis Plan (2012, background): “…out vigorously in discussions of aid policy: whereas some argue that large infusions of foreign aid can themselves help build stronger institutions (Sachs 2005), others assert that historically rooted institutions and social norms are difficult to understand, let alone transform (Easterly 2006).”
A Political Economy of Aid (2009, background): “They conclude that government-to-government aid is the wrong way to dispense assistance and in general that the methods used to disperse assistance are ine¢ cient for alleviating poverty (Easterly 2006).”
FRAGILE STATES AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY (2011, neutral): “Bauer (1972, 1975) was an early aid pessimist, while a modern aid critique is strongly stated in Easterly (2006).6 More recently, some observers have attempted to reconcile the two views, by being more optimistic on conditionality and the ability of analysts to identify the underlying pathologies.”
Formation, Growth, and Adaptive Change in Marketing Systems (2015, background): “As Easterly (2006) points out, in his discussion of Planners and Searchers in the allocation of aid programs in developing countries, aid is often ineffective as it is too often offered without regard to the specific ways a marketing system of interest works in a community.”
Aid and Development (2006, background): “35 It is certainly amusing to read about ’Bono, Sachs, the Dalai Lama, and the pope’ in Easterly (2001, p. 126), but Easterly (2006) creates far too many caricatures.”
Can the West Save Africa (2008, positive): “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.”
A ‘post‐aid world'? Paradigm shift in foreign aid and development cooperation at the 2011 Busan High Level Forum (2014, background): “After the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, Western-led foreign aid flows and institutions experienced something of a hiatus, although the outcomes varied considerably by recipient (Easterly 2007).”
The Whiteness of AI (2020, background): “It was therefore legitimate — even a duty, “the white man’s burden” as Kipling put it — to destroy their cultures and take their territories (Kipling 1899) .”
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.”
Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction (2019, background): “The current basic handouts from governments, charities and organizations as a solution for solving poverty problems are likely to be ineffective, especially for the peaceful regions in the world (Easterly 2006; Easterly, Levine, and Roodman 2004).”
Are Aid Agencies Improving (2007, positive): “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).”
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid (2008, background): “There have been fierce debates over how effective this aid has been or could be in the future (for example, Sachs, 2005; Easterly, 2006).”