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William Easterly
Researcher at New York University
Publications - 253
Citations - 51357
William Easterly is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Per capita income & Investment (macroeconomics). The author has an hindex of 93, co-authored 253 publications receiving 49657 citations. Previous affiliations of William Easterly include York University & Center for Global Development.
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Africa's Growth Tragedy : Policies and Ethnic Divisions
William Easterly,Ross Levine +1 more
TL;DR: For instance, the authors argued that ethnic divisions explain a significatn part of Africa's slow growth and Africa's choice of growth-reducing policies and that Africa's poor growth is associated with Africa's low schooling, political instability, underdeveloped financial systems, distorted foreign exchange markets, high government deficits, insufficient infrastructure, and poor institutions.
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The Cartel of Good Intentions: Markets vs. Bureaucracy in Foreign Aid
TL;DR: The tragedy of foreign aid is not that it didn't work; it was never really tried as mentioned in this paper, but that a group of well-meaning national and international bureaucracies dispensed foreign aid under conditions in which bureaucracy does not work well.