New Aid Watch Blog

Human rights are the wrong basis for healthcare in Financial Times, October 2009

The Anarchy of Success review of the books The Drunkard's Walk by L.Mlodinow and Bad Samaritans by H.Chang, New York Review of Books, October 2009

Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?, with D.Comin and E.Gong, NBER

Artificial States, with A. Alesina and J. Matuszeski, in the Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming

Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point, in the BE Journal of Macroeconomics: Contributions, forthcoming

False Economy, a review of Alan Beattie's new book in the Financial Times,
April 13, 2009

Affluence and Ethics, a review of Peter Singer's new book in the Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2009

The Indomitable in Pursuit of the Inexplicable, commentary in the book
Development Economics through the Decades: A Critical Look at Thirty Years of the World Development Report, March 2009

The Poor Man's Burden, Foreign Policy, January - February 2009

Documentary on The White Man's Burden, forthcoming in 2010
Main Trailer (additional trailers: Epiphany, The Title)

The 2008 Hayek Lecture: Hayek vs. The Development Experts, October 23, 2008

Foreign Aid Goes Military! review of the book The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier, New York Review of Books, December 2008

Development Doesn't Require Big Government, Wall Street Journal, October 2008

Can the West Save Africa, forthcoming from the Journal of Economic Literature, 2008

Reinventing Foreign Aid, MIT Press, July 2008

Where Does The Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid
(JEP, 2008, with T.Pfutze)
WFP criticism
Easterly-Pfutze reply

Easterly Index: Ranking Aid Agencies (Hint: U.N.Stinks), Real Time Economics,
June 19, 2008

Debate in the Financial Times, May 28 - June 2008
Round 1: Easterly vs. World Bank
Trust the Development Experts- All 7 bn
Round 2: Martin Wolf vs. Easterly, refereed by Clive Crook
Useful Dos and Don'ts for Fast Economic Growth
Round 3: Martin Wolf vs. Sachs vs. Collier vs. Easterly
Sustaining Growth is This Century;s Big Challenge

Interview on The Big Think, May 2008

Superpower Interventions and Democracy , NBER WP13992, May 2008

Why Bill Gates Hates My Book, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 2008

How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa, World Development, January 2009

Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? American Economic Review, May 2008

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Recipient of 2008 Hayek Award from the Manhattan Institute

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