Growing Up U.S.A.I.D.
As a child in postings around the world, the author witnessed the agency’s complex relationship with American empire—and with autocrats everywhere. Source link
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Elon Musk and Donald Trump Are Not Fixing U.S. Foreign Aid but Destroying It
For almost twenty-five years, William Easterly, a free-market economist at New York University, has been a prominent academic critic of foreign-aid programs. In his 2001 book, “The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics,” Easterly wrote that decades of development assistance from the West had failed to spur growth and relieve … Read more