foreign aid

Foreign aid?

How much foreign aid is 'tied' anyway?Tied meaning that the aid comes with a stipulation that you buy XYZ from the donating country. Seems like a good way for politicians to surreptitiously...

Is foreign aid the solution to global poverty?

I came across this question while helping my boyfriend fill out scholarships for school. I think it's a good question. I don't believe foreign aid is the only solution to global poverty. I don't...

People are dying and we give money away!!!

Why does the United States send so much aid to foreign countries when we have people dying every day here that could use a little help? Do we as a country spend money unnecessarily? Should we use the...

The Realist, by

The latest EconTalk is here—William Easterly talking about the ideas in his two books, The Elusive Quest for Growth and The White Man's Burden. He is remarkably unenthusiastic about the ability of...

The Realist

The latest EconTalk is here—William Easterly talking about the ideas in his two books, The Elusive Quest for Growth and The White Man's Burden. He is remarkably unenthusiastic about the ability of...

The Bottom Billion

The latest EconTalk is a conversation with Paul Collier about the ideas in his book, The Bottom Billion. I think he is overly optimistic about military intervention and the productivity of voluntary...

Freedom and the Ultimate Resource

The Wall Street Journal's Mary Anastasia O'Grady summarizes the findings of the latest - the 14th - Heritage Foundation/ The Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom. Here are the opening...

Better than Bono

Karol, with Marginal Revolution's own Tyler Cowen, just published this outstanding article in the current issue of the Wilson Quarterly. It's entitled "The Micromagic of Microcredit." Here are the...

Paths to Property

Karol and her Mercatus Center colleague Paul Dragos Aligica have just had their important new monograph -- Paths to Property -- published by the prestigious Institute of Economic Affairs. (And my...

Gag Rule

The United States currently has a global gag rule in place that indicates non-government organizations cannot use funding from any country for the purpose of abortion. The consequnce of doing so will...

Easterly vs. Bono

Bill Easterly is always worth reading. Here are a couple of paragraphs from his op-ed that appears in today's edition of the Los Angeles Times:In truth, Africans are and will be escaping poverty the...

Africans Need Capitalism

Karol has a superb letter published in today's edition of the New York Times:To the Editor:In 'Patient' Capital for an Africa That Can't Wait (column, April 20), Thomas L. Friedman is spot-on in his...

Out of Africa

The smarter, wiser, and more-talented half of the Boudreaux team has this very nice essay in yesterday's edition of Nairobi's The Nation. In it, Karol encourages Kenya's government to increase that...