Chris Blattman’s Blog: Easterly on Obama
Chris Blattman’s Blog: Easterly on Obama All aid proposals since the 60s follow the same script: (1) announce an ambitious goal (’halving poverty’) (2) invoke Marshall Plan as a very promising precedent (3) say you will double foreign aid (its always exactly double) (4) ignore the historical record on previous aid programs that also did (1) through (3)
