“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” - Fredrick Hayek, 1988
The plenary session of the WIDER conference on Aid is available online. My recommendations are Easterly’s presentation and that of Peter Heller.
Easterly’s presentation is almost the same as his discussion at CGD recently.
Related;
The Future of Aid – presentation by Richard Manning, Head of DAC, OECD.
The End of Poverty- a profile of Jaffrey Sachs
The Man Without a Plan- a review of Easterly’s book by Amartya Sen
Foreign aid face-off; Can we end poverty with wads of cash?
Earlier blog posts; A Shocking Fact about Sub-Saharan Africa, Removing binding constraints to growth?
