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What Bono Doesn't Say About Africa
Just when it seemed that Western images of Africa could not get any weirder, the July 2007 special Africa issue of Vanity Fair was published, complete with a feature article on "Madonna's Malawi." At...
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Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?
ABSTRACT We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors of today's nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is...
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Are Aid Agencies Improving?
Introduction For long-time observers of foreign aid, "make poverty history" in Africa and other poor countries has some disquieting signs. The United Nations, the World Bank, the IMF, and the national...
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Don't Bank on the Asian Development Bank
Pity the Asian Development Bank. It is trying to come up with a reason to exist for an Asian continent that already is achieving development and doesn't need a Development Bank. Given all the economic...
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Business Bookshelf: Surprised by Opportunity
Review of Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement, by William Duggan. Set big goals. Do whatever it takes to reach them. These muscular sentences form the core of commencement...
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How the Millennium Development Goals Are Unfair to Africa
View an updated version, published by World Development, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2009. INTRODUCTION One of the centerpieces of foreign aid efforts in the new millennium has been the effort to attain seven...
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Superpower Interventions and Their Consequences for Democracy
ABSTRACT Do superpower interventions to install and prop up political leaders in other countries subsequently result in more or less democracy, and does this effect vary depending on whether the...
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Are the Millennium Development Goals Unfair to Africa?
Event Information February 6, 200811:30 AM - 1:30 PM ESTFalk AuditoriumThe Brookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Ave., NWWashington, DC Register for the EventThe United Nations Millennium...
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Is the Brain Drain Good for Africa?
ABSTRACT We build upon recent literature to do several exercises to assess benefits and costs of the brain drain to Africa. Contrary to a lot of the worries expressed in the media and in aid agencies,...
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Trust the Development Experts – All 7 Billion
The report of the World Bank Growth Commission, led by Nobel laureate Michael Spence, was published last week. After two years of work by the commission of 21 world leaders and experts, an 11- member...
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What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking Small
Event Information May 29-30, 2008The Brookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Ave., NWWashington, DC Bill Easterly and Jessica Cohen of Brookings recently convened a conference with leading development...
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6.7 Billion Secrets of Development
Event Information June 5, 20088:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDTThe Brookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Ave., NWWashington, DC The Global Economy and Development program at Brookings hosted the third meeting...
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Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid
Editor’s Note: June 26, 2008: In response to this working paper, Brookings received comments from some of the aid agencies that were reviewed as part of Easterly and Pfutze’s research and suggested...
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Development Doesn't Require Big Government
Financial meltdown will not cause the U.S. to abandon democratic capitalism, but the outcome is less clear for countries deciding whether capitalism is the best system. In many of these countries the...
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Can the West Save Africa?
Introduction The last few years have seen unprecedented attention to an attempt by Western governments to rapidly develop Africa. British Prime Minister Tony Blair called at the World Economic Forum...
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Foreign Aid Goes Military!
Vladimir Lenin wrote a pamphlet in 1916 called Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism: "Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which...the division of all territories of the...
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The Poor Man's Burden
Editor's Note: Eighty years ago, a depression changed the way we think about poverty. It took decades for the world to recover and to remember that if people are given freedom, they will prosper. In...
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What Works in Development? : Thinking Big and Thinking Small
Brookings Institution Press 2009 250pp. What Works in Development? brings together leading experts to address one of the most basic yet vexing issues in development: what do we really know about what...
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The Civil War in Development Economics
Few people outside academia realize how badly Randomized Evaluation has polarized academic development economists for and against. My little debate with Sachs seems like gentle whispers by...
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What Works in Development? - Thinking Big and Thinking Small
Event Information January 21, 20102:30 PM - 4:00 PM ESTFalk AuditoriumThe Brookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Ave., NWWashington, DC In What Works in Development? (Brookings Press, 2009),...
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