Tag: development
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Another Free-Market Straw Man
I get so tired of reading these pointless free-market commentaries that do nothing but state the obvious and grind the axe. Today's find: William Easterly's Financial Times article, "Trust the development experts – all 7bn of them." Easterly ridicules a recent (rather impressive, though judicious and occasionally mealy-mouthed) World Bank report on development, arguing that…