Aid is not a necessary or a sufficient condition for economic recovery. The experiences of postwar Europe and parts of the developing world in recent decades confirm that economic freedom, not foreign aid, leads to growth and prosperity.
Niall Ferguson, The Newy Yorker, August 27 2007
In all likelihood, then, Western Europe could have pulled through without the Marshall Plan
by William Easterly
Speech to Asian Development Bank
historically poverty has never been ended by central planners. It is only ended by "searchers", both economic and political, who explore solutions by trial and error, have a way to get feedback on the ones that work, and then expand the ones that work, all of this in an unplanned, spontaneous way.Download here -->>
by Michael Wines
New York Times, Dec 7th 2005
Here in Malawi's second city and in the capital, Lilongwe, it is hard-->>
to find an office building without some benevolent organization come to
help Malawi's throngs of poor. The United Nations is here in force. The
British are omnipresent in this, their former colony. Some major
charities occupy...
