Session 9 The Path to Development
A Peter Bauer Memorial Lecture by William Easterly. No text in hand, refer to his previous publications such as this review and his Blog.
How foreign aid was invented by accident, and misreading the Marshall Plan as a success.
A reminder of Peter Bauer’s work.
On the ground: Mercatus and Enterprise Africa projects.
Private education & the Third World. E G West Centre.
Extracts from Stanislav Andreski’s book The African Predicament.
The Introduction, Chapter 12 Hidden Aspects of Foreign Aid and Chapter 14 African Socialism.
When I first saw the title of this post, I thought it was a clever pun on Popper’s world 3.
Bryan Magee or someone wrote that when Popper first started talking about his third world he was not fully aware of all the talk about the Third World and he was advised to make a minor change in terminology and talk about World 3 instead of the third world.