{"id":110,"date":"2006-02-17T22:02:47","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T05:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2006-03-16T18:54:30","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T01:54:30","slug":"the-west-cant-save-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/17\/the-west-cant-save-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The West Can&#8217;t Save Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Easterly has a piece in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/12\/AR2006021201150.html\">Monday&#8217;s Washington Post<\/a> about the failure of development aid to help Africa. I&#8217;m just finishing Easterly&#8217;s previous book, <em>The Elusive Quest for Growth<\/em>, which is very compelling. This article, however, is a little over the top in its efforts to provoke. Easterly writes: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThe West&#8217;s focus on sensational tragedies obscures the achievements of people such as Patrick Awuah and Robert Keter, who are succeeding even against tremendous odds. Economic development in Africa will depend &#8212; as it has elsewhere and throughout the history of the modern world &#8212; on the success of private-sector entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs and African political reformers. It will not depend on the activities of patronizing, bureaucratic, unaccountable and poorly informed outsiders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A64541-2005Mar24.html\">heated exchange<\/a> in the Post that Easterly&#8217;s review of Jeffrey Sachs&#8217;s book produced last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Easterly has a piece in Monday&#8217;s Washington Post about the failure of development aid to help Africa. I&#8217;m just finishing Easterly&#8217;s previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, which is very compelling. This article, however, is a little over the top in its efforts to provoke. Easterly writes: The West&#8217;s focus on sensational tragedies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}