The Aid Watch blog publishes commentary, analysis and links about the international aid industry and the growth and development of poor countries. This page gathers together reports, blog posts, news articles and other resources linked to and debated on the blog. It is updated weekly.

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News Articles

After the earthquake, A plan for Haiti - The Economist - January 21, 2010
Growth of aid and the decline of humanitarianism - The Lancet - January 23, 2010
Donations to Help Haiti Exceed $528-million, Chronicle Tally Finds - The Chronicle of Philanthropy - January 27, 2010
Getting Humanitarian Relief Right - Laura Freschi - Forbes.com - January 18, 2010
Security concerns cause doctors to leave hospital, quake victims - CNN - January 17, 2010
The Underlying Tragedy - David Brooks Op-Ed - NY Times - January 14, 2010
Factbox - Countries, aid agencies seeking to help Haiti - Reuters - January 13, 2010
Haiti Earthquake relief: Aid workers struggle to provide help - Christian Science Monitor, January 13, 2010
Aid Workers Scramble Amid Haiti's Chaos - NY Times - January 13, 2010
Sharing Your Bra Color Is The New 25 Things on Facebook - Mashable - January 6, 2010
Development in the 21st Century - Foreign Policy - January 6, 2010
Clinton Ties U.S. Security to Better Aid Delivery - Retuers - January 6, 2010
Ten for the Next Ten by Bono - NY Times - January 2, 2010


2009
Top Ten Pro-Liberty Books of the Decade - Atlas Economic Research Foundation Network News - December 28, 2009
Rules Are Topsy-Turvy After Terror Attempt - NY Times - December 28, 2009
Passengers to U.S. Face Stay-Seated Rule After Bombing Attempt - Business Week - December 26, 2009
For rich nations, this is not the season for giving - Alan Beatie - Financial Times - December 22, 2009
Politico: Print Edition - December 18, 209
Population: In the family way - Financial Times - December 9, 2009
MIT floats ideas in DARPA balloon challenge (Q&A) - cnet news - December 8, 2009
The climate-change travesty - George F. Will - Washington Post - December 6, 2009
With Lure of Cash, M.I.T. Group Builds a Balloon-Finding Team to take Pentagon Prize - NY Times - December 6, 2009
A One-Term President?: The Choice - New York Review of Books - December 3, 2009
Four Ways to Fix Afghanistan Without Guns - Esquire - December 1, 2009
New Data Show 1.4 Billion Live on Less Than US$1.25 A Day, But Progress Against Poverty Remains Strong - World Bank - December 2009
Esquire's Women We Love - Esquire - December 2009
Foreign Policy's First Annual List of the Top 100 Global Thinkers - Foreign Policy - December 2009
Leaked climate change emails 'wont bias UN global warming body' says Chairman - Telegraph.co.uk - November 30,2009
The perlis of political correctness -- left and right - The Week - November 28, 2009
Rajiv Shah: The man Obama wants to revitalize USAID - The Christian Science Monitor - November 10, 2009
President Obama Announces USAID Administrator - The White House - November 10, 2009
Breaking: Rajiv Shah for USAID Administrator - Politico - November 10, 2009
USAID, part XIX - Politico - November 9, 2009
Does Kabul Need a Green Zone? - change.org - November 5, 2009
Microfinance: Autism or Hormone Replacement Theory? -  Philanthropy Action - October 28, 2009
Bill and Melinda Gates: Benefits of Global Health Aid - NPR - October 28, 2009 
Scientists Monkey Around With The Economy - NPR - October 23, 2009
Cancer Society, in shift, Has Concerns on Screenings – NY Times, October 20, 2009
AIDS Vaccine Trial Shows Only Slight Protection – NY Times, October 20, 2009  
USAID Projects to Continue, Says Director - USAID Pakistan News Release - October 15, 2009 
US Rethinks Afghan Aid Strategy – Financial Times – October 13, 2009
Human Rights Are the Wrong Basis for Health Care – Financial Times – October 12, 2009
Civilian Goals Largely Unmet in Afghanistan – New York Times – October 11, 2009
World Bank Needs 1^st Cap Hike in 20 Years – The Wall Street Journal – October 5, 2009
More Equity for Development – Financial Times – October 6, 2009
U.S. Push to Expand in Pakistan Meets Resistance - NY Times - October 5, 2009
Big Countries Spar Over $5bn Equity Plea – Financial Times – October 5, 2009
World Bank Development Committee Communiqué - October 5, 2009
African FinMins Call for G20 Voice, More Support – Reuters Africa – October 5, 2009
Britain asks World Bank to cut officialdom and speed up aid – Guardian UK – October 4, 2009
Another Inconvenient Truth: The World's Growing Population Poses a Malthusian Dilemma - Scientific America - October 2, 2009
State Dept. Rethinks How to Deliver Aid to Pakistan - USA Today - October 2, 2009
World Bank Could ‘run out of money’ within 12 months – Telegraph.co.uk – October 2, 2009
Faith Leaders hope G-20 summit will ‘do right’ for poor – Florida Catholic – September 23, 2009
Secretary General Cites Climate Change, Disarmament, World Poverty Among Top Priorities for Action – UN Department of Public Information – September 23, 2009
For the First Time, AIDS Vaccine Shows Some Success – NY Times, September 24, 2009
After the Crisis? - Robert Zoellick, The World Bank – September 28, 2009
Pittsburgh Should be a Turning Point for the Poor – Financial Times – September 23, 2009
China Spreads Aid in Africa, With a Catch - NY Times - September 21, 2009
U.S. Fears Pakistan Aid Will Feed Graft - NY Times - September 20, 2009
We can’t abandon Africa to cannibalism and genocide – Irish Independent – September 20, 2009
Amnesty International Hits the Road with U2! – Amnesty International – September 18, 2009
Noble Awards to Honor Celebrity Humanitarians – The World of Celebrity Giving – September 17, 2009
UNESCO’s Leadership: A race or a death-wish? – Economist.com – September 10, 2009
The Afghanistan Abyss - Nicholas Kristof – September 5, 2009
Lush Land Dries Up, Withering Kenya’s Hopes – NY Times – September 7, 2009
The Mzungu Thing - Alex Halperin – n+1 – September 1, 2009
AIDS Advocacy – How To Do It, How Not To – Change.org Global Health – August 28, 2009
The Ethics of Aid: One Kenyan’s Perspective – Speaking of Faith – August 27, 2009
Officials Weigh Circumcision to Fight H.I.V Risk – NY Times – August 23, 2009
Fictional Sovereignties by Robert Skidelsky – The Korea Times – August 23, 2009
Reform the right should embrace: For the U.S. to save more lives, build self-sufficiency abroad – The Washington Times – August 20, 2009
A $9 Trillion Question: Did the World Get Muhammad Yunus Wrong? – Foreign Policy – August 18, 2009
Afghan Road Project Shows Bumps in Drive for Stability - The Wall Street Journal - August 17, 2009
Extending the Horizon for Woman’s Aid Projects in Afghanistan – NY Times – August 14, 2009
The Hillary Doctrine – The Wall Street Journal – August 14, 2009
How to rebuild a shamed subject – Financial Times – August 5, 2009
Credit crunch failure explained to Queen – Financial Times – July 26, 2009
Reviews prompt suspension of Iraqi jobs program – USA Today – July 26, 2009
As Officers Face Heated Words, Their Tactics Vary – NY Times – July 24, 2009
Memo from the UN: When to Step In to Stop War Crimes Causes Fissures – NY Times – July 22, 2009
Loss of U.S. trade deal could sink Madagascar textiles – Reuters India – July 17, 2009
Stray Questions for Michela Wrong – NY Times Paper Cuts – July 17, 2009
Clinton: vetting for top official’s is a nightmare – Thomson Reuters Foundation – July 13, 2009
“Wall Street’s Toxic Message” - Joseph Stiglitz – Vanity Fair – July 2009
The Bank of Babel – Foreign Policy – June 30, 2009
Why We Are Less At Risk of Major Famines Today than in the Past - History News Network - June 29, 2009
In Kenya, corruption expose is too hot to sell – The Christian Science Monitor – June 28, 2009
Sustainable Results: Addressing the Misconceptions About the Millennium Villages Project– The Huffington Post – June 23, 2009
Jeffery Sachs’ Misguided Foreign Aid Efforts – The Huffington Post – June 19, 2009
Economists are Seeking Remedies to the Crisis – Economists View – June 17, 2009
Tight Rules Helped Mitigate Crisis in Brazil – Financial Times – June 16, 2009
Charles Taylor Has Become a Jew, His Wife Says – ABC News – June 9, 2009
Back to Sachs: Astrology, Despotism, and Africa - William Easterly – Huffington Post – June 2, 2009
No Need to Oversimplify Poverty - Jeffery Sachs – Huffington Post – June 1, 2009
Moyo’s Confused Attack on Aid for Africa by Jeffery Sachs – Huffington Post – May 27, 2009
Sachs Ironies: Why Critics are Better for Foreign Aid than Apologists - William Easterly – Huffington Post – May 25, 2009
Aid Ironies - Jeffery Sachs – Huffington Post – May 24, 2009
L’ambassadeur des Etats-Unis se dit très inquiet de la situation à Madagascar – April 23, 2009
Call for IMF gold sale to aid Africa – Financial Times – March 18, 2009
Ethiopia revokes coffee licenses – BBC News – March 25, 2009
West Virginia, Incest Virginia? How the Mountain State got a reputation for inbreeding – Slate – June 3, 2008
Geography Lessons: Correcting Sachs on African Economic Development – Huffington Post – May 29, 2009
Big UN conference on theglobal crisis is postponed – why? – From Poverty to Power – May 28, 2009
Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen Fund’s patient capitalist – Economist.com – May 21, 2009
Corrupt Afghan officials hurt aid – USA Today – May 20, 2009
Eye Opener: Clinton Now Believes in Change – Federal Eye, Washington Post – May 14, 2009
The Gates Foundation is Missing Its Chance to Be A Partner – Change.org – May 10, 2009
Don’t Forget About Foreign Aid by Madeline Albright and Colin Powell – The Wall Street Journal – May 5, 2009
Out of Africa? - Francis Fukuyama – Slate.com – May 4, 2009  
This Post is Not About Swine Flu – Change.org: Global Health – May 1, 2009  
World Finance Leaders Meet, and Cautiously Glimpse ‘Green Shoots’ of Recovery- New York Times - April 24, 2009  
A new push to combat malaria – Financial Times – April 23, 2009  
World’s best chance to tackle killer – Financial Times – April 23, 2009  
Villagers using bed-nets for wedding gowns – Daily Nation – April 22, 2009  
Is Aid Really “Dead”? – Huffington Post – April 21, 2009  
Global Health: Twitter Face-Off to Fight Malaria – Global Voices – April 20, 2009  
Cash for Coffins? What happened when Oxfam gave poor Vietnam a lump sum? – From Poverty to Power – April 16, 2009  
Report: U.N. spent U.S. funds on shoddy projects – USA Today – April 15, 2009  
History vindicates the science of muddling through – Financial Times – April 14, 2009  
False Economy - William Easterly – Financial Times – April 13, 2009 
Homegrown Aid - Jeffery Sachs – New York Times, April 8, 2009
Where's the Remotest Place on Earth? - NewScientist.com - April 2, 2009
Number of chronically hungry tops 1bn – Financial Times – March 26, 2009  
Lockdown in Vienna: the UN’s drug summit – Open Democracy – March 23, 2009  
UN summit perpetuates the fatal myth of a drug-free world – Taipei Times – March 20, 2009  
Do Not Let the ‘Cure’ Destroy Capitalism – Financial Times – March 19, 2009  
Madagascar's President Quits After Weeks of Chaos - NY Times - March 17, 2009
Is Aid Killing Africa? Interview with Dambisa Moyo – ABC News – March 17, 2009  
The Pope on Condoms and AIDS – New York Times – March 17, 2009  
Grammar fails to make up for lack of gravitas – Financial Times – March 15, 2009  
A De-Globalized World? - Dani Rodrik – Korea Times – May 13, 2009  
European Parliament resolution of 12 March 2009 on an approach to ‘EC development assistance to health services in sub-Saharan Africa’ – Relief Web – March 12, 2009  
Ghana Will Receive $1.2 Billion of World Bank Loans – Bloomberg.com – March 12, 2009  
Adam Smith’s market never stood alone – Financial Times – March 10, 2009  
Can cash-strapped world find emergency funds for poor?  - Thompson Reuters -  March 9, 2009  
Global Economy Top Threat to U.S., Spy Chief Says – New York Times, February 12, 2009  
Microsoft alum’s university taking root – The Seattle Times – February 2, 2009  
They Can Kill Me, But They Can’t Kill My Ideas – Parade – February 1, 2009  
CEOs, UN Secretary-General join UNHCR chief in Davos Refugee Run  - UNHCR – January 30, 2009  
Leaders Go Left, But Economists Get Back to Basics - William Easterly – Forbes – January 30, 2009  
‘Safest’ seat remarks get Muslim family kicked off plane – CNN International – January 2, 2009
The Poor Man’s Burden - William Easterly – Foreign Policy – January/February 2009  
Davos 2009 – Financial Times      

2008
International Growth Centre Launched - University of Oxford - December 11, 2008
Dead Children Linked to Aid Policy in Africa Favoring American – Bloomberg.com – December 8, 2008
Interview with President of Islamic Development Bank – ICP Bulletin – December 2008  
A UN Agency for Women? –AllAfrica.com – November 6, 2008  
A UN Agency for Women and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – Aids Free World – November 3, 2008
A Green Revolution for Africa? - New York Times - October 10, 2008
Development Doesn’t Require Big Government by William Easterly - Wall Street Journal – October 3, 2008
European nations offer incentives to have kids - SF Gate - August 10, 2008
U.S. Food Aid: We Pay for Shipping – Business Week – July 9, 2008  
Malthus Redux: Is Doomsday Upon Us, Again? - New York Times - June 15, 2008 
MEDIAWATCH: Food summit thwarts hope – Rueters – June 6, 2008  
UN food summit ends in failure as delegates fudge final declaration -  The Independent – June 6, 2008  
More Trouble for Tajik Economy – Business Week – May 22, 2008  
Ethiopian Exchange Bans Trade in Futures – Financial Times – April 20, 2008
Corruption in Driving Licensing Process in Delhi – Economic and Political Weekly – February 2, 2008
Committee to Protect Journalists: Andrew Mwenda, Founder and Managing Editor, The Independent

2006
Overpopulation 'is main threat to planet' - The Independent - January 7, 2006

2005
The Prophet of Economics Possibilities for the Poor - Washington National Cathedral Events – September 11, 2005
Africans going hungry across continent - USA Today - August 17, 2005
Mali's nomads face famine - BBC News - August 9, 2005

2002
Malawian minister faces fraud charge – The Independent – August 7, 2002  




Blog Posts

Development in the Year of Immigration Reform: New Video - Views from the Center - January 11, 2010
The Lancet is Off-Base About Aid Agencies - UN Dispatch - January 23, 2010
Messaging, the media, and Haiti - Chris Blattman - January 19, 2010
David Brooks saves the world in 1000 words - Chris Blattman - January 16, 2010
Haiti Earthquake Live Blog - Reuters
Haiti Partners - Chris Blattman - January 13, 2010
Choosing organizations to donate to after the Haiti Earthquake - Good Intentions Are Not Enough - January 13, 2010
Advice for Donors to Haiti - Philanthropy Action - January 13, 2010
Easterly, Acton, and Visionary Leadership - The Beacon Blog - January 9, 2010
Clinton Stresses the Need to Re-Balance Health Assistance Away from AIDS Treatment - January 8, 2010
Secretary Clinton Pledges to Work With Nonprofit World - The Chronicle of Philanthropy - January 7, 2010
Hilary Clinton on development: aid, agriculture, health and women - From Poverty to Power - January 7, 2010
Secretary Clinton Pushes the Development Envelope in CGD Speech - Views from the Center - January 7, 2010
Clinton Announces Development Will Be Central Pillar of Foreign Policy - Global Health at change.org - January 7, 2010
The other Clinton, on development strategies - Chris Blattman - January 7, 2010
Hillary Clinton on Development Issues by Nicholas Kristof - On the Ground - January 6, 2010
Tower of Babble by William Easterly - Foreign Policy - January 6, 2010
Happy Blogiversary, Here's Some Vitriol - Wronging Rights - January 4, 2010
Having fixed Africa and AIDS, Bono tackles filesharing - boingboing - January 4, 2010
Terrorists and false positives - Marginal Revolution - January 1, 2010

2009
Very Rare Terrorists Are Very Hard to Find - Yglesias - December 31, 2009
How a universal advocate would response to the universal critic - Aid Thoughts - December 30, 2009
The Universal Cynics' Answer to Why Your Aid Project Won't Work - Owen Abroad - December 30, 2009
10 PSD Classics of the "Naughties" - Private Sector Development Blog - December 29, 2009
The two big things that have changed air travel since 9/11 - Chris Blattman - December 29, 2009
Too Much Information - Yglesias - December 28, 2009
Separating Explosives from the Detonator - Bruce Schneier - December 26, 2009
Does Aid Cause Dutch Disease? - Global Development: Views from the Center - December 18, 2009
I'd Rather Wear Photoshop - Secure Computing: Sec-C - December 6, 2009
Climate and credibility: an epistemic detour - Clive Crook - The Atlantic - December 2, 2009
More on Climategate - Clive Crook - The Atlantic - November 30, 2009
Pakistan Rock Rails Against the West, Not the Taliban - PAKISTAN - At War Blog, NY Times - November 11, 2009
CGD President Nancy Birdsall on Raj Shah Nomination as USAID Administrator - Center for Global Development - November 10, 2009
It's Official: Rajiv Shah Nominated USAID Administrator - ONE - November 10, 2009
From Acting to Vacant: The Plot Thickens on USAID Leadership Front - Center for Global Development - November 9, 2009
Body by Victoria - Secure Computing: Sec-C - November 2, 2009
The Things He Carried - By Jeffery Goldberg (The Atlantic) - featured in Bruce Schenier's blog - November 2009
Does Aid Promote Economic Growth? - Owen Abroad - October 30, 2009
The Politics of Aid: Controversy Surrounds the Pakistan Aid Bill - Center for Strategic and International Studies - October 19, 2009
Donating medicine after disasters - Good Intentions Are Not Enough - October 8, 2009
In Defense of Forecasting by Martin Ravallion – Economix  - October 2, 2009
Mismatch between Newly Inclusive G-20 and Limited Changes at the IMF and World Bank By Nancy Birdsall – Center for Global Development – September 28, 2009
One needle in a haystack, or many? – Private Sector Development World Bank – September 17, 2009
We are listening: real-time feedback loops - Global Goodness Blog - September 16, 2009
Joy of (UN) Sex – Chris Blattman – September 5, 2009
China, India and Africa: The Big Picture – Chris Blattman – August 11, 2009  
Trade Policy as Development Policy – Vox – August 7, 2009  
What to do II: The Donor Edition - Emergency Response - Tales From the Hood - July 31, 2009
Celebrity Activism Blows – Save Darfur Accountability Project – July 23, 2009  
“Are We Part of Sudan?” The AU Panel  in Ain Siro by Alex DeWaal – Making Sense of Darfur – June 16, 2009  
Donating to Gates – against its will – The GiveWell Blog – June 9, 2009  
5 questions you should ask before donating goods overseas - Good Intentions are Not Enough - May 27, 2009
Food Aid – Good, Better, Best – Owen Abroad – May 24, 2009  
No Utopians Here, Man. Only Lawyers – Wronging Rights – May 19, 2009   
Attention and Deterrence by Alex DeWaal – Making Sense of Darfur – May 11, 2009  
De-Globalization and Development – Economist’s View – May 13, 2009  
The Serious Conflict in the Modern Conservative Movement – The Becker-Posner – May 10, 2009  
Whither the causation? – Post Conflicted – May 7, 2009  
From Glamor Aid to Twitter Aid – Private Sector Development – May 6, 2009  
Militaries, Mamdani, and Magical Thinking – Wronging Rights – May 5, 2009  
Is there a silver lining for Mexico? – Marginal Revolution – May 2, 2009  
The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the World’s Poorest – Vox – April 30, 2009  
Africa Plugged In – Freakonomics– April 30, 2009  
Mobiles in Africa : We Need the Eggs – Many Possibilities Blog – April 29, 2009  
One Hundred Days: Where is the USAID Administrator?  - Global Development: Views from the Center – April 29, 2009  
A week in open data and visualization – Private Sector Development – April 29, 2009  
Why Do Poor Nations Continue to be Enthralled with Capitalism? – Dani Rodrik’s Weblog – April 28, 2009
Supreme Court Gets Hella Creepy – Wronging Rights – April 23, 2009  
Wikipedia, the anti-cholesterol medication for knowledge management – Private Sector Development – April 9, 2009  
Jeff Sachs and Jon McArthur now blogging – Chris Blatmann – April 3, 2009
Untrue Accusations by ONE against Dambisa Moyo and Dead Aid – David Grundy – March 29, 2009  
Dead Aid is Dead Wrong – ONE – March 26, 2009  
Uncharted Waters by Alex de Waal – Making Sense of Darfur – March 5, 2009  
Melinda Gates and Antimalaria Data - Give and Take: A Roundup of Blogs about the Nonprofit World – February 13, 2009
Human Rights Cartoon (115): Human Rights, Overpopulation and Malthus - Pap Blog - January 7, 2009  
Guide: Designing an Advocacy Video – DigiActive – March 16, 2008
Niger: UN Says Niger Famine Is Now Hitting Mali - Coalition for Darfur - August 12, 2005



Academic Articles

Whose Lives Count? TV Coverage of Natural Disasters by William C. Adams
Political Economy by Alberto Alesina  
Aid and Growth: Have We Come Full Circle? by Channing Arndt, Sam Jones and Finn Tarp 
Happiness and Foreign Aid by Mark Arvin and Bryon Lew
The Economic Lives of the Poor by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Taxes, Institutions and Local Governance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colonial Nigeria by Daniel Berger
After Samuelson, Who Needs Adam Smith? by Kenneth Boulding  
Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question by Thomas Carlyle, 1849
The Carlyle-Mill "Negro Question" Debate
Height, Health and Economic Development by Anne Case and Christina Paxon  
Determinants of Economic Growth: Will Data Tell? by Antonio Ciccone and Marek Jarocinski
The Political Economy of "Natural" Disasters by Charles Cohen and Eric Werker
Income per Natural: Measuring Development for People Rather Than Places by Michael A. Clemens and Lant Pritchett
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the U.S Border by Michael Clemens, Claudio E. Montenegro and Lant Pritchett
On the Duration of Civil War by Paul Collier et al.  
Reconstructing Weak and Failed States: Foreign Intervention and the Nirvana Fallacy by Christopher Coyne
Profiting in (RED): Innovative Development Finance or a System of Inadequate Regulation? by Sarah Dadush
What Does the Rule of Law Measure? by Kevin Davis  
Life at the Top: The Benefits of Height by Angus Deaton and Raksha Arora  
Low Investment is not the Constraint on African Development by Shantayanan Devarajan, William R. Easterly and Howard Pack  
The Curse of Aid by Simeon Djankov, Jose Garcia Montalvo, and Marta Ryenal-Querol  
The Politics of Humanitarian Aid: U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, 1964 - 1995 by A. Cooper Drury, Richard Stuart Olson and Douglas A. Van Belle
Additional Resources versus Organizational Changes in Education: Experimental Evidence from Kenya by Esther Duflo et al.
Growth Econometrics by S.N Durlauf, P.A Johnson and J.R.W Temple
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? by William Easterly  
Can the West Save Africa? by William Easterly  
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point by William Easterly 
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa by William Easterly  
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting “Aid, Policies, and Growth” by William Easterly, Ross Levine, and David Roodman  
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid – by William Easterly and Tobias Pfutze
Malthus Reconsidered: Population, Natural Resources, and Markets (No. 38) by Ross B. Emmet
The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques by Raymond Fisman and Shang-Jin Wei
Estimating the Value of Political Connections by Raymond Fisman
Of Population. An Enquiry concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind (1820) by William Godwin
Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle by Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann
Why I am Not a Conservative by F.A. Hayek  
To Hell With Good Intentions by Ivan Illich  
Whither the World Bank and the IMF? by Anne Krueger
The Secret History of the Dismal Science. Part I. Economics, Religion and Race in the 19th Century by David Levy and Sandra Peart
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus
Globalization and Goals: Does Soccer Show the Way? by Branko Milnaovic  
The premise that the poorest countries cannot grow ignores a decade of modest successes by Edward Miguel
The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa by Nathan Nunn and Leonard  
Initial Evidence of reduction of malaria cases and deaths in Rwanda and Ethiopia due to rapid scale-up of malaria prevention and treatment by Mac Otten et al.  
Solutions When the Solution is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development by Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock  
The Policy Irrelevance of the Economics of Education: Is “Normative as Positive” Just Useless, or is it Worse? by Lant Prtichett  
Aid and Growth: What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show? by Raghuram G. Rajan and Arvind Subramanian
Aid, Catasrophes and the Samaritan's Dilemma by Paul A. Raschky and Maijeh Schwindt
Globalization and the Beautiful Game by Dani Rodrik
Determinants of Long-Term Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach by Xavier Sala-I-Martin, Gernot Doppelhofer and Ronald I. Miller    





Reports, Speeches, and Legislation

15th Annual Herbert and Justice Rose Luttan Rubin International Law Symposium
G8’s Solutions to the Problems of the Poor
Action Aid Alliance – Towards Effective Partnership: United Aid  
Ad Hoc Committee Report on the 'Hockey Stick' Global Climate Reconstruction 
Amnesty International Report 2009
Angus Deaton - Price indexes, inequality, and the measurement of world poverty
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University - U.S. Aid to Pakistan - U.S. Taxpayers Have Funded Pakistani Corruption 
CSIS Report - A Perilous Course: U.S. Strategy and Assistance to Pakistan - A Report of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project
Children rely on G8 promises – World Vision UK  
Concern Worldwide and Oxfam: Cash Transfers as a Response to Disaster  
Concern Worldwide: Zambia  
Country-led Development: Proven Partnersnhips in Fighting Global Poverty - MCC's Acting CEO Darius Mans, September 22, 2009
CRS Report for Congress: International Food Aid Provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill DFID: A Guide to the Protection of Basic Services Project  
Department of Health and Human Services - Annual Update of the HSS Poverty Guidelines 2009
Department of Homeland Security - Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2008
Disaster Relief Volunteering - Idealist.org
Economist.com Democracy Index 2008  
Evaluation of General Budget Support, International Development Department, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham – May 2006  
Fake Aid: How foreign aid is being used to support the self-serving political activities of NGOs – International Policy Network  
Financing of Global Health: Tracking Development Assistance for Health from 1990 to 2007  
Formative Review of the Millennium Villages Project: Synthesis Report - Overseas Development Institute
General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto’s Speech to the General Assembly on the Responsibility to Protect
Give Well’s Top Rated International Aid Charities  
Global Voices Haiti Earthquake 2010
Health Lessons Learned from the Recent Earthquakes and Tsunami in Asia
House of Commons, Committee of Public Accounts - Department for International Development: Providing Budget Support for Developing Countries  
Improving Effectiveness and Outcomes for the Poor in Health, Nutrition, and Population - IEG World Bank  
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre: Sudan  
International Crisis Group – Tajikistan: On the Road to Failure  
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights  
International Republican Institute - IRI Index: Pakistan Public Opinion Survey, July 15 - August 7, 2009
Interview with the President of Islamic Development Bank
Leaders Statement at the Pittsburgh Summit  
Living Proof Project: Progress Against Malaria  
Millennium Villages Project Annual Report 2008  
Millennium Challenge Corporation Challenge Compacts
Millennium Challenge Corporation Selection Indicators
Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights by Paul Farmer  
New Encyclical Released by Pope Benedict at G8 Summit   
OECD: Evaluation of General Budget Support  
ONE - The Facets About Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Appeals and Funding 
Overseas Development Institute: Cash and Vouchers in emergencies Resource Library  
Oxfam America: Aid Reform   Oxfam’s Work in Zambia   Pandemic Influenza - UNICEF  
Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness  
Partnership General Budget Support – Overall Findings
Personnel Management in Iraq - NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq, Paper 3, January 2008 
Polity IV Project: Dataset Users' Manual by Monty G. Marshall and Keith Jaggers
President Obama’s Speech to the Ghanian Parliament, August 11, 2009 – Full Text from Huffington Post  
Protecting Progress: The Challenge Facing Low-Income Countries in the Global Recession – Background paper prepared by World Bank Group staff for the G-20 Leader’s Meeting
Randomized Trials - MIT Poverty Action Lab
Remarks at the 8^th Forum of the African Growth and Opportunity Act by Hillary Clinton – U.S. Department of State – August 5, 2009
Remarks at the New York University Commencement Ceremony – Hilary Rodham Clinton -  
Scientific evidence to guide policy on MDGs - MIT Poverty Action Lab
Speech by Hilary Beenn MP, UK Secretary State for International Development  
State Failure Task Force Report: 1995
The African Millennium Villages by the Earth Institute, Columbia University  
The future of children’s rights – in whose hands? – Child Rights Information Network  
The Growth Report - Commission on Growth and Development 
Transparency International Global Corruption Report 2008  
Transport Costs and Specialization - World Bank World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography
Tsunami Evaluation Coalition: The role of needs assesment in the tsunami response 
United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) – Foreign Assistance: Various Challenges Impede the Efficiency and Effectiveness of U.S. Food Aid 
US Chamber of Commerce - Corporate Driven Aid
US Coast Guard - Alien Migrant Interdiction
USAID - Report of Investigation: United Nations Development Program  
USAID Cargo Preference  
USAID Disaster Assistance: Zambia    
USAID Iraq: Biweekly Update - July 27, 2006
USAID Office of Inspector General: Audit of USAID/Iraq’s Community Stabilization Program  
USAID: Assessment of Corruption in Afghanistan  
USAID: Contradictory Objectives for the USAID/Pakistan Program
Voices of the Vulnerable: The Economic Crisis from the Ground Up  
William Easterly NYU Lecture  
WHO’s Role and Responsibilities in Health Research – Report by the Secretariat  
World Bank Global Monitoring Report 2009: A Development Emergency  
World Bank: Emerging Good Practice in Managing for Development Results  
World Bank: Haiti
World Databse of Happiness 
World Health Organization: Global Malaria Report 2008  
World Health Organization: Health and Human Rights

Videos

Anderson Cooper - 5-year-old pulled out alive
Andrew Mwenda on Taxation and Accountability in International Aid  
Ante Up for Africa Promo 
Blogging Heads: Tough Love
Breaking News from the Onion: Ugandan Ambassador Seizes Control of the UN and Declares himself Secretary-General for life – The Onion  
Davis Delivers Inaugural Beller Lecture  
Do They Know It’s Christmas – BandAid  
Douglas Alexander Speech on Conflict, Frugality and Development at NDN  
Haiti - Audio Gallery: The Burden of Aid
Highlights of "Hope for Haiti Now" Concert
In My Name – Global Chorus to End Poverty  
Internet World Map 2007 - IPligence  
Jacqueline Novogratz: A Third Way to Think About Aid
June Arunga on Western Attitudes Towards Business in Africa at DRI  
Leonard Wantchekon on the Lack of Intra-Community Trusty in Benin at DRI
Levi's America and O'Pioneer Combined - Go Forth 
Make a Fashion Statement – Invisible Children  
Make Your Mark – MSF Canada  
MSF Boy  
Nicole Richie on women in the Congo
Q&A Session at Speech by Douglas Alexander at NDN 
Ross Levine on How Much is A Lot of Money for the World Bank? at DRI  
Ross Levine on a Bank Regulation Study at the World Bank at DRI  
Search and Rescue – Invisible Children 
Selena Gomez Talks About Her Trip to Africa  
Skip1.org "Restaurant" PSA
The Market Maker: Can a Commodities Exchange End Famine in Ethiopia?
The New York Times site taffic, World View, June 25, 2009
The New York Times site traffic, US, June 25, 2009
'Tis the Season to be Giving? - Peter Singer and William Easterly  
U2 360 Tour ad by Blackberry  
What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking Small
Why We Are Impatient Optimists – Bill and Melinda Gates  
Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad on Youtube  




Websites

(RED)
(RED) Terms of Use
(Starbucks) RED  
Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action
Akvopedia: The Open Source for Water and Sanitation
Amnesty International  
Ashesi University College  
Bank Information Center
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Living Proof Project  
Boston Review – Development in Dangerous Places: A Forum on Global Poverty and Intervention
Bruce Schneier  
Bureau of Transportation Statistics 
Charter Cities  
Child Rights Information Network  
Children and Youth, The World Bank  
Children's Hunger Fund
Children's Hunger Fund Food Pak
Counting Prayers - The Prayer Vigil to End Extreme Poverty Demand Dignity Campaign  
Deirdre Mccloskey
Do Something
"Dutch Disease"
Economics Junkie, “Savings and Investment”  
EOS Visions: Project Excursions in Rwanda  
Ethiopia Commodity Exchange  
Free Africa Foundation
Granta
Groupment des Enterprises Franches et Partenaires (GEFP) 
Global Development Network    
Global Forum for Health Research
Global Giving 
Global Giving - Relief Fund for Haiti
Global Population Speak Out
Humanitarian Relief from Change.org
How to Write About Africa 
Initiative for Global Development  
Innovations for Poverty Action  
International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect  
International Growth Center
JDS Data Bank
Marie Stopes International
Millennium Challenge Corporation  
Millennium Congregations  
Millennium Villages  
MIT Poverty Action Lab  
NDN  
Orphanage.org  
Partners in Health
Philanthropy Action
Political Instability Task Force
Population Institute
Publish What You Fund  
Servant’s Heart Relief
Skip1.org 
The Hunger Project  
The Daily Best: Haiti Crisis
The Independent  
UN Dispatch
United Nations Delivering as One
USAID Afghanistan  
WomensTrust  
World Bank Independent Evaluation Group




Books and Book Reviews

The U.S. Army Stability Operations Field Manual: U.S. Army Field Manual No. 3-07 False Economy by Alan Beattie
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference edited by Geoffrey Brennan and Loren Lomasky
'The Anarchy of Success' by Ha-Joon Chang, James Rossant, Reply by William Easterly
The Power of Freedom: Uniting Human Rights and Development by Jean-Pierre Chauffour
Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population by Matthew Connelly
After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy by Christopher Coyne
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa by Alex de Waal
Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement by William Duggan
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics - by William Easterly
What Works in Development?: Thinking Big and Thinking Small - Edited by William Easterly and Jessica Cohen
In the River They Swim: Essays From Around the World on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty by Michael Fairbanks et al.
The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development", Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho by James Ferguson
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics by David Levy
Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror by Mahmood Mamdani
England and Ireland by John Stuart Mill
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives – by Leonard Mlodinow 
Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model by John Mullins and Randy Komisar
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin
The "Vanity of the Philosopher": From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics by Sandra Peart and David Levy
The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig
China into Africa: Trade, Aid and Influence by Robert Rotberg, Brookings Institution
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffery Sachs
Lord Hailey, the Colonial Office and the Politics of Race and Empire in the Seco: The Loss of White Prestige by Suke Wolton
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Giving Back by Elizabeth Ziemba  
Fall 2009 Claremont Review of Books 
Affluence and Ethics, A Book Review by William Easterly of The Life You Can Save – The Wall Street Journal
Foreign Aid Goes Military! By William Easterly – The New York Review of Books – December 4, 2008  
Reviews of Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo
Surprised by Opportunity by William Easterly – The Wall Street Journal – November 14, 2007
The Anarchy of Success by William Easterly – The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books: Capitalism Beyond the Crisis by Amartya Sen