Tag: Foreign Aid

• April 26, 2016

  [Book Review] From Aid to Trade: Lessons Learned from Haiti

  Haiti is a country that has been almost “NGO’d” to death. In their new book, From Aid to Trade, Daniel Jean-Louis and Jacqueline Klamer (full disclosure: two former colleagues of mine) highlight this issue in a clear and meaningful way. They make the case that even with this vast abundance of NGOs, Haiti as a nation…
• February 1, 2016

  Links I Like [1.16]

  The #1 reason people die early, in each country Why are weddings so damn expensive “A Slightly Cruel but Mostly Brilliant Teaching Strategy on Global Poverty” Congress is actually working together on something: Reforming foreign aid Davos Dreaming: Development without Development: “The calculation works not because 62 people own the vast majority of everything (they don’t), but…
• April 26, 2015

  Thoughts on Foreign Aid

  Matt Collin, a research fellow over at CGD – Europe, has a nice quick and dirty video on the issues and reality of foreign aid. He brings up a good point that is often hastily brushed over in the aid vs. trade debate. (Which apparently is still a thing, because my post on ‘The Great…