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EVENTS
Why Foreign Aid Has Failed . . . and How to Fix It
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM — 2:00 PM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
 
 
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After fifty years and more than two trillion dollars in aid, the West has strikingly little to show for its efforts in alleviating global poverty. How much does the world really know about fostering economic growth and development in the world’s poorest countries? Why has foreign aid so often failed to achieve results—and how can it be fixed? Is there an alternative to the current failed approach to development assistance?

Please join AEI for a panel discussion to discuss these and other questions. Speakers include William Easterly, professor of economics at New York University and author of White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Penguin Press, 2006); Robert Guest, former Africa editor of The Economist; and Adam Lerrick, AEI visiting scholar and professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University. AEI research fellow Vance Serchuk will moderate.

 
Agenda
11:45 a.m.
Registration and Luncheon
 
 
 
 
Noon
Presenter:
William Easterly, New York University
 
Panelists:
Robert Guest, The Economist
 
 
Adam Lerrick, AEI
 
Moderator:
Vance Serchuk, AEI
 
 
 
1:30 p.m.
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