Free Eskinder Nega! - William Easterly, Peter Godwin, Aryeh Neier, Kenneth Roth, Joel Simon, The New York Review of Books, August, 16, 2012
The Roots of Hardship – Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2012
How I Would Not Lead the World Bank - Foreign Policy, March 5, 2012
The Case of Eskinder Nega – with Mark Hamrick, Aryeh Neier, Kenneth Roth and Joel Simon, The New York Review of Books, January 12, 2011 (ungated version)
Review of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow – The Financial Times, November 5, 2011
Correspondence: National, regional, and worldwide estimates of stillbirth rates – with Laura Freschi, The Lancet, September 3, 2011
What Must We Do to End World Poverty? - Podcast on development and individual freedoms, at the Columbia Tikvah-Hertog Summer Institute, August 10, 2011
Review of Dambisa Moyo’s Dead Aid – Written for London Review of Books, June 2009, never published
Benevolent Autocrats – EconTalk, May 30, 2011
Measuring How and Why Aid Works — or Doesn’t – Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2011
The Happiness Wars – The Lancet, April 30, 2011
Tracing Development of Manhattan Block – NPR, March 20, 2011
Technocrats vs Rights – Contestations, February 2011
Response to Nicholas Eberstadt, Global Poverty and Its Sad Persistence – Commentary, January 25, 2011 (Original article here.)
We can’t engineer the result we want in the Ivory Coast – The Guardian, January 14, 2011
Lennon the Rebel, Bono the Wonk -The Washington Post, December 12, 2010
Foreign Aid for Scoundrels – New York Review of Books, November 25, 2010
Why Are We Supporting Repression in Ethiopia? – New York Review of Books with Laura Freschi, November 15, 2010
Reinventing the Wheel – Foreign Policy, October 11, 2010
UN Convenes To Assess Global Progress – William Easterly interviewed by Michel Martin, NPR, September 21, 2010
Only Trade-Fuelled Growth Can Help the World’s Poor – Financial Times, September 21, 2010 (ungated version)
Study: Educating Women Saves Millions of Kids – William Easterly interviewed by Maria Cheng, Associated Press, September 17, 2010
The Hazards of Doing Good – Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2010 (ungated version)
If Only Martin Luther King Had Modern Software and Jargon: the Powerpoint Version of “I Have a Dream” (PPT) – Huffington Post, August 27, 2010
How Not to Win Hearts and Minds – Wall Street Journal, August 16, 2010 (ungated version)
A High-Five for the Invisible Hand – New York Times, June 3, 2010
Making Foreign Aid Work – Religion and Ethics, PBS, February 19, 2010
Tower of Babble – Foreign Policy, January 6, 2010
African Leaders Advise Bono on Reform of U2 – Huffington Post, November 23, 2009
Human Rights are the Wrong Basis for Healthcare - Financial Times, October 12, 2009
Anarchy of Success -A review of The Drunkard’s Walk by L. Mlodinow and Bad Samaritans by H. Chang, New York Review of Books, October 2009 (ungated version)
Out of Burundi, Into America – Wall Street Journal, August 26, 2009
Who is the Target Audience for Celebrity Aid Campaigns? – Huffington Post, August 13, 2009
The Skip Gates Arrest May Not Have Been About Race — But About Something Even Worse – Huffington Post, July 27, 2009
It’s Over: The Tragedy of the Millennium Development Goals – Huffington Post, July 6, 2009
Will US Army’s Development Delusions Cause More Deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan? – Huffington Post, June 19, 2010
Amnesty International Confuses Poverty and Human Rights – Huffington Post, June 5, 2009
Back to Sachs: Astrology, Despotism, and Africa – Huffington Post, June 2, 2009
Geography Lessons: Correcting Sachs on African Economic Development – Huffington Post, May 29, 2009
Sachs Ironies: Why Critics are Better for Foreign Aid than Apologists – Huffington Post, May 25, 2009
False Economy – A review of Alan Beattie’s Book- Financial Times, April 13, 2009
Affluence and Ethics - A review of Peter Singer’s Book – Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2009
Random Thoughts of a Development Economist on the Crisis – Talk of the Nation, NPR, March 5, 2009
The Poor Man’s Burden – Foreign Policy, January/February 2009
Foreign Aid Goes Military! - A review of Paul Collier’s “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It,” The New York Review of Books, December 4, 2008 (ungated version)
Development Doesn’t Require Big Government - Wall Street Journal, October 3, 2008
Bill Gates’ Misguided Capitalism – Huffington Post, July 1, 2008
Trust the Development Experts – all 7bn - Financial Times, May 28, 2008
Easterly on “Growth, Poverty and Aid” - An interview with William Easterly, The Library of Economics and Liberty, February 11, 2008
Why Bill Gates Hates My Book - An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2008
Creative Capitalism: Can It Meet the Needs of the World’s Poor? – Transcript of a panel discussion with William Easterly, Eugene Steuerle and Allen Hammond, Hudson’s Institute’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, January 30, 2008
Foreign Aid: An End to the World’s Worst Poverty? - Interview on Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria, WETA-TV, PBS, November 16, 2007
Surprised by Opportunity - A review of William Duggan’s “Strategic Intuition”, The Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2007
An Ivory Tower Analysis of Real World Poverty - A review of Paul Collier’s “The Bottom Billion” by William Easterly, The Lancet, October 27, 2007
Don’t Bank on the ADB - An op-ed in The Wall Street Journal Asia, October 2, 2007
Does Giving Aid to the Poor End Poverty? - A discussion with William Easterly, Bram van Ojik, Ralf Bodelier, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, September 20, 2007
Interview on the Riz Khan Show - William Easterly interviewed by Riz Khan, Al Jazeera, May 30, 2007
How, and How Not, to Stop AIDS in Africa - A review of Helen Epstein’s “The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS “, The New York Review of Books, August 16, 2007
What Bono Doesn’t Say About Africa - The Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2007
The Least Among Us - by Niall Ferguson, The New York Times, July 1, 2007
The Ideology of Development - Foreign Policy, July/August 2007
Interview with Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly - Pablo Pardo, El Mundo, Madrid, May 26th 2007
Article translated from Spanish and Aidspeak
Article in Spanish
Complete interviews with Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly (in Spanish only)
Does He Hear the World’s Poor? Don’t Bank on It. - The Washington Post, April 22, 2007
Africa’s Poverty Trap - An op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2007
The Response by the IMF
William Easterly’s Response to the IMF
His Magical Misery Tour - A review of “Poor People” by William T. Vollmann, The Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2007
The Effectiveness of Foreign Aid - An online debate with William Easterly and Steve Radelet, Council on Foreign Relations, November 27, 2006
Dismal Science - An op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, November 15, 2006
Jeffery Sach’s Response
William Easterly’s Response to Jeffrey Sachs
Is Foreign Aid working? A debate with Hilary Benn, Cabinet Minister for British aid - The Prospect, November 2006
Interview by Paul Solman, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, September 21, 2006
4 Ways To Spend $60 Billion Wisely - The Washington Post, July 2, 2006
The Handouts that Feed Poverty- The Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2006
Accountability for Multilateral Development Banks – Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 28, 2006
The West Can’t Save Africa – The Washington Post, February 13, 2006
The Utopian Nightmare – Foreign Policy, September/October 2005
Tone Deaf on Africa – The New York Times, July 3, 2005
The White Bands Burden – The Independent, June 5, 2005
A Modest Proposal - A review of Jeffrey Sachs’ The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, The Washington Post, March 13, 2005
Letters
See also “Letters” for Jeffrey Sachs’ letter to the Editor in response to the book review and the reply from William Easterly ( published March 27, 2005)
For a review of Jeffrey Sachs’ The End of Poverty in a more scholarly venue and style, click here.
Money is not a Cure-All for Africa’s Poor – The Times Higher Education Supplement, March 11, 2005
Comment on: “Latin America in the rear view mirror,” (with Ross Levine and David Roodman) Journal of Monetary Economics Vol 52 Issue 1, January 2005, pp.109-112
Playing the Aid Game – Forbes, August 11, 2003
As the World Turns – The Washington Post, July 13, 2003
In Search of the Holy Grail: The Elusive Quest for Growth and Development, Interview by Brian Snowdon, World Economics, Volume 4, 2003
Manifest Destiny – The Washington Post, September 22, 2002
Give the Poor A Choice – by Dennis Whittle and William Easterly, The Financial Times, August 26, 2002
Cartel of Good Intentions – Foreign Policy, July/August 2002
A Grand Tour of Crises – The Financial Times, June 3, 2002
Tired Old Mantras at Monterrey – The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2002
The failure of economic development, Interview in Challenge Magazine, January/February 2002
Think Again: Debt Relief – Foreign Policy, November/December 2001
Does Foreign Aid Add Up? – Foreign Policy, July/August2001
The Failure of Development – The Financial Times, July 4, 2001
Book review of Mancur Olson, Power and Prosperity: outgrowing Community and Capitalist Dictatorships - Finance and Development, December 2000
Comment on Dani Rodrik, “Governing the Global Economy: Does One Architectural Style Fit All?” - Brookings Trade Forum 1999, edited by Susan M. Collins and Robert Z. Lawrence
Book review of A. Aslund, How Russia Became a Market Economy – Finance and Development, December 1995
Could inflation stabilization be expansionary?, (with Michael Bruno) – Transition Newsletter, Volume 6, Number 7-8, July-August 1995
Book review of R. Herrnstein and C. Murray, The Bell Curve – Finance and Development, March 1995
What we can learn from the Soviet collapse, (with Stanley Fischer) – Finance and Development, December 1994
Living on Borrowed Time: Lessons of the Soviet Economy’s Collapse, (with Stanley Fischer) – Transition, Volume 5, No. 4, April 1994, pp. 1-3
Book review of L.E. Harrison, Who Prospers? How Cultural Values Shape Economic and Political Success – Finance and Development, March 1994, p.51
Financing the Storm: Russia’s Inflation Crisis, (with Paulo Viera de Cunha) – Transition, Volume 5, No. 4,October-November 1993, pp. 4-6
Culture Is Not To Blame, (with Lawrence Summers) – Financial Times, op-ed page, April 15, 1992
Culture is Not an Obstacle to Growth, (with Lawrence Summers) – WE/MBI (Russia), June 1, 1992
Book review of Growth, Productivity, and Unemployment, by P. Diamond – Finance and Development, Vol 28(4):51. December 1991
Economic Policy and Economic Growth – Finance and Development, Vol. 28(3):10-13, September 1991
Projection of Growth Rates – CEC Outreach Note #5, World Bank, November 1992
Ten Questions and Answers about Public Sector Deficits, (with Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel) – CEC Outreach Note #10, World Bank, May 1993
The Determinants of Economic Success: Luck and Policy (with Lant Pritchett) – Finance and Development, December 1993, pp. 38-41
Book review of P. Krugman, Geography and Trade – Finance and Development, Vol. 29, No. 4, December 1992
Inflation and Stabilization, comments on Stephan Haggard – The New Political Economy and Development Policymaking, edited by G. Meier, International Center for Economic Growth, 1991
Comment on Joel Slemrod, “Taxation, Prosperity, and Growth” – Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1996:1
