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My recent work
I am teaching *Africa in the world economy*

To read the Wall Street Journal Oped "Why Bill Gates Hates My Book", February 7 2008, click here.

To read paper "How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa" (Brookings Global Economy and Development Working Paper #14), click here.

To read AEA Meetings Paper "Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up?", January 2008, click here.

To read review of William Duggan's "Strategic Intuition", published in the Wall Street Journal, November 14 2007, click here.

 

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Named among Best Books of 2006 by The Economist, The Washington Post and the Financial Times.

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To read review of Paul Collier's book "The Bottom Billion", published in The Lancet, October 27 2007, click here.

To read review of Helen Epstein's book "The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS", published in the New York Review of Books, August 16 2007, click here.

To read the Los Angeles Times oped "What Bono Doesn't Say About Africa", July 6 2007, click here.

To read Foreign Policy article "The Ideology of Development", published in the July/August 2007 issue, click here. To read responses click here.

To read the most recent Sachs vs. Easterly debate (translated from Spanish and Aidspeak) click here, to read the original article in Spanish click here.

To watch the video of the Davos Aid Debate with Gates, Easterly, Sirleaf-Johnson and Wolfowitz click here.

To read exchanges with Jeffrey D. Sachs click here.

To read paper "Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?" (DRI Working Paper #26) click here.

To read paper "Was Development Assistance a Mistake?" (AEA Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming May 2007) click here.

To read paper "Are Aid Agencies Improving?" (DRIWP No.25) click here.

 

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