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Easterly om Udviklingshjælp

Hedegaard — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:44:06 +0000

Udviklingshjælp, diktatur, demokrati og mere…

The failure of development - William Easterly, 2001

Easterly var også hovedmanden bag den tidligere anbefalede blog Aid Watch, som desværre nu er lukket. I 2001 var han seniorrådgiver i Verdensbanken og blev herfra fyret efter at have skrevet nærværende klumme. Læs det hele, men her er nogle – for mange? – citater:

Thus we urged governments to embrace democracy, constitutions, independent judiciaries, decentral-isation to local governments and other magic bullets. None of them worked.

Governments in many poor countries were torn by conflict over redistribution of the existing pie between regions, political factions and ethnic groups. Or the landed and industrial elite, to whom power was more important than development, were afraid to invest in the masses that might demand their share of power

Sometimes aid lenders gave loans to enable old aid loans to be repaid. Sometimes donors gave aid because the recipient countries were political allies of the donor countries. Recipient governments promised the multilateral agencies that this time they would reform, like alcoholics promising never to drink again.

William Easterly er i øvrigt forfatter til bogen The White Man’s Burden om udviklingshjælp.

Dagens anbefalinger

Hedegaard — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:45:32 +0000

Pudsige varer solgt i Walmart i Kina, Østrigsk Økonomis kapitalteori og noget om udvikling.

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Krokodiller, frøer, griseansigter og meget mere. Listne er med billeder.

Austrian Economics for Dummies: The Multiple Specificity of Capital

Steven Horwits beskriver kort, hvordan han som østrigsk økonom opfatter kapital:

I recently noticed on a drive to Potsdam that the former “Windy Hill Motel” is now “Windy Hill Storage.”

Who Did More To Help the Poor: Sam Walton or Mother Teresa?

Randall Holcombe beskriver, hvorfor Walmart – måske – har gjort mere godt i Verden end Mother Teresa.

Aamund om udviklingsbistand

Hedegaard — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:39:34 +0000

Asger Aamund har i dag i Politiken kommenteret på forslaget om at skære i udviklingsbistanden. Har han ret?

Vi skal hele tiden tænke på, at vi ikke giver ulandshjælp for at tækkes indenrigspolitiske interesser. Vi gør det for at give en lang række fattige mennesker hjælp til selvhjælp

Jeg vil tro, at man meningsfyldt kan argumentere for det modsatte.