In Portable Document Format

My recent work

I am teaching *Africa in the world economy*

"Easterly on Growth, Poverty and Aid"

A Conversation with William Easterly

The Library of Economics and Liberty, February 11th 2008

"Why Bill Gates Hates My Book"

An Oped by William Easterly

The Wall Street Journal, February 7th 2008

"Bill Gates Issues Call for Kinder Capitalism "

Robert A. Guth

The Wall Street Journal, January 24th 2008

"Surprised by Opportunity "

A book review of William Duggan's "Strategic Intuition " by William Easterly

The Wall Street Journal, November 14th 2007

"An Ivory Tower Analysis of Real World Poverty"

A book review of Paul Collier's "The Bottom Billion" by William Easterly

The Lancet, October 27th 2007

"Don't Bank on the ADB "

An Oped by William Easterly

The Wall Street Journal Asia, October 2nd 2007

"Does Giving Aid to the Poor End Poverty ?"

A discussion with William Easterly, Bram van Ojik, Ralf Bodelier

Radio Netherlands Worldwide, September 20th 2007

"Is Western Aid Making a Difference in Africa?"

Danna Harman

The Christian Science Monitor, August 23rd 2007

Interview on the Riz Khan Show

William Easterly interviewed by Riz Khan

Al Jazeera, May 30th 2007

"How, and How Not, to Stop AIDS in Africa"

A book review of Helen Epstein's "The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS " by William Easterly

The New York Review of Books, August 16th 2007

"What Bono Doesn't Say About Africa"

William Easterly

The Los Angeles Times, July 6th 2007

"The Least Among Us "

Niall Ferguson

The New York Times, July 1st 2007

"The Ideology of Development "

William Easterly

Foreign Policy, July/August 2007

Interview with Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly

Pablo Pardo

El Mundo, Madrid, May 26th 2007

 

 

 

"Does He Hear the World's Poor? Don't Bank on It. "

William Easterly

The Washington Post, April 22nd 2007

"Africa's Poverty Trap "

An oped by William Easterly

The Wall Street Journal, March 23rd 2007

"His Magical Misery Tour "

A book review by William Easterly of "Poor People" by William T. Vollmann

The Wall Street Journal, March 2nd 2007

"Fashion Victims"

Maureen Callahan

The New York Post, February 6th 2007

"The Effectiveness of Foreign Aid "

An online debate with William Easterly and Steve Radelet

Council on Foreign Relations, Start November 27th 2006

"Dismal Science "

An oped by William Easterly

The Wall Street Journal, November 15th 2006

"Is Foreign Aid working ? "

A debate with Hilary
Benn, Cabinet Minister for British aid

The Prospect, November 2006

"Shopping for a Nobel "

John Tierney

The New York Times, October 17th 2006

"Can aid bring an end to poverty? "

Mark Doyle

BBC News , October 4th 2006

"William Easterly on How to Make Aid effective, Beat Pessimism and What's Wrong with Bono "

Tim Ogden

PerformancePhilathropy.com , September 23th 2006

PerformancePhilanthropy.com

"Is aid a $2.3 trillion failure? "

Heather Steward

The Guardian , September 24th 2006

"Authors Analyze, Criticize Foreign Aid Agencies in New Books"

Paul Solman

The NewsHour's Economics Correspondent Paul Solman reports on the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing proverty.

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer , September 21st 2006

"Forget the World Bank, try Wal Mart "

Michael Strong

TCS Daily , August 22nd 2006

TCS DAILY

"Harvard study gives support for Pridnestrovie statehood "

Jason Cooper

The Tiraspol Times, September 1st 2006

"Count Ethnic Divisions, Not Bombs,

 to Tell if a Nation Will Recover From War"

Austan Goolsbee

The New York Times, July 20th 2006

 

"Fighting Poverty With $2-a-Day Jobs "

Daniel Gross

The New York Times, July 16th 2006

 

"4 Ways To Spend $60 Billion Wisely"

William Easterly

The Washington Post, July 2nd 2006

One year on, vow to make poverty history in Africa has hollow ring

June 26th 2006

MYTH - More Foreign Aid will End Global Poverty

John Stossel and Patrick McMenamin

May 12th 2006

 

Foreign aid skeptics thrive on pessimism

Jeffrey D. Sachs

The Los Angeles Times, May 7th 2006

The Handouts that Feed Poverty

William Easterly

The Los Angeles Times, April 30th 2006

 

 

Bernanke Urges Local, Small-Scale Development

National Public Radio (NPR.org), April 20, 2006

Bernanke spoke to the Greenlining Institute's Thirteenth Annual Economic Development Summit, Los Angeles, Calif., via satellite.

The chairman's remarks in their entirety

 

William Easterly's testimony before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

“Accountability for multilateral development banks”

 

"The West can't save Africa "

William Easterly

The Washington Post, February 13th 2006

"Aid and Poverty Interview "

Radio Interview on the Millenium Development Goals with William Easterly

National Public Radio and BBC "The World", September 9th 2005

"The Utopian Nightmare "

William Easterly

Foreign Policy, September/October 2005

"Can Aid Do More Harm than Good? "

Henri Astier

BBC News, August 26th 2005

"Aid Recipients might have the best Ideas about Allocation"

Steven Pearlstein

The Washington Post, July 12th 2005

"Aid is well worth trying "

Martin Wolf

The Financial Times, July 5th 2005

 

"Tone Deaf on Africa "

William Easterly

The New York Times, July 3rd 2005

"The White Band's Burden "

William Easterly

The Independent, June 5th 2005

 

"A Modest Proposal"

William Easterly

A Review of Jeffrey Sachs' The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

The Washington Post, March 13th 2005

See also "Letters" for Jeffrey Sachs' letter to the Editor in response to the book review and the reply from William Easterly ( published March 27th 2005)

For a review of Jeffrey Sachs' The End of Poverty in a more scholarly venue and style, click here.

 

"Money is not a cure-all for Africa's poor"

William Easterly

The Times Higher Education Supplement, March 11th 2005

 

" Do Aid Studies Govern Policies or Reflect Them?"

The New York Times, July 26, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"As the World Turns "

Book Review by William Easterly

The Washington Post, July 13th 2003

 

"Manifest Destiny "

Book Review by William Easterly

The Washington Post, September 22nd 2002

 

 

"Give the Poor a Choice "

Dennis Whittle and William Easterly

The Financial Times, August 26th 2002

 

"The Cartel of Good Intentions "

William Easterly

Foreign Policy, July/August 2002

 

"A Grand Tour of Crises "

William Easterly

The Financial Times, June 3rd 2002

 

"Tired Old Mantras at Monterrey"

William Easterly

The Wall Street Journal, March 18th 2002

 

"Debt Relief "

William Easterly

Foreign Policy, November/December 2001

 

"Does Foreign Aid Add Up? "

William Easterly

Foreign Policy, July/August2001

"The Failure of Development"

William Easterly

The Financial Times, July 4th 2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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