Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
Top experts in the field discuss how to improve the effectiveness of foreign aid, proposing practical solutions to specific problems rather than a utopian master plan. The urgency of reducing poverty in the developing world has been the subject of...
It is impossible to convey the depth and range of TheElusive Quest for Growth. -Bruce Bartlett, The Wall Street Journal A highly readable and iconoclastic treatment of the determinants of economic growth. -Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs
William Easterly is the author of The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT Press, 2001) and The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. He is Professor of Economics at New York University (Joint with Africa House), Codirector of NYU's Development Research Institute, visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Nonresident Fellow of the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.