Opinion: Grudge Match: Does Foreign Aid Work?
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| Aid at work: A doctor writes a boy’s weight on his arm in Congo (Getty Images) |
Last week in the Times, economist William Easterly argued spending mountains of cash on a campaign to end poverty is getting us nowhere. Yesterday, academic and advocate Jeffrey Sachs took aim at Easterly and other foreign-aid ‘skeptics.’ Read the op-eds here and decide who’s right — then cast your vote on who won.