 | Book Review of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
November 16, 2009 Journal Articles Johan van der Walt |
| Dambisa Moyo’s new book, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, has received a great deal of attention in the last few months. Moyo’s book is a must-read for any person interested in the question of why some countries are rich while others remain stagnant or poor.
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 | Review of Starved for Science
April 13, 2009 Journal Articles Daniel Sacks |
| In Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa, Robert Paarlberg argues that Africa fails to feed itself in part because of the limited use of biotechnology and blames African governments and their European counterparts for that failure. See what Enterprise Africa! researcher Dan Sacks has to say.
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 | Starving for Change
November 3, 2008 Mercatus On Policy Daniel Sacks,
Karol Boudreaux |
| The United States government spends over two billion dollars a year on food aid, supposedly to help poor, hungry people around the world fight off starvation. However, much of this money is not helping the hungry, but instead supports U.S. farmers, shipping companies, and food manufacturers.
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 | Review of Yunus' Creating a World Without Poverty
October 31, 2008 Journal Articles Daniel Sacks |
| In this article, Enterprise Africa! researcher Daniel Sacks reviews Muhammad Yunus’ latest book Creating a World without Poverty. The book focuses on “social businesses,” which Yunus believes have unique abilities to address poverty in ways that markets, governments, nonprofits and multilateral development agencies cannot.
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 | Managing Expectations for Microcredit
August 25, 2008 Mercatus On Policy Daniel Sacks,
Karol Boudreaux,
Tyler Cowen |
| Microcredit offers real benefits to people in developing countries. However, microcredit’s supporters overestimate its benefits. While some borrowers use microcredit loans to start business, most borrowers use the loans to keep a current business in operation. And few borrowers are able to turn their small businesses into large-scale firms, which would provide jobs for other poor people.
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 | Review of William Easterly's White Man's Burden
September 1, 2006 Journal Articles Peter Boettke |
| Easterly's book argues that development policy must return to basics and focus on bottom-up "searchers" rather than top-down planning. Does this provide the solution the plight of the poor?
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| Markets, Institutions, and Millennium Development Goals
June 1, 2007 Journal Articles Kimenyi Mwangi |
| The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) may have noble objectives but there are concerns that the associated transfer of resources from wealthy to poor countries could be counterproductive in terms of long-term economic performance.Reforming the institutions of governance and removing barriers that hinder the efficient functioning of markets are the most effective ways for poor countries to achieve MDGs.
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| Educating Amaretch
June 1, 2007 Journal Articles James Tooley |
| Recent research shows that private schools for the poor are superior to government schools – teachers are more committed, the provision of inputs better and educational outcomes better – even after controlling for background variables.
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 | Empowering the Poor Through Property Rights
April 14, 2008 Books Karol Boudreaux |
| Fair access to property rights goes way beyond their role as economic assets. Secure and accessible property rights provide a sense of identity, dignity, and belonging to people of very different economic means. They create reliable ties of rights and obligations among community members as well as a system of mutual recognition of rights and responsibilities beyond the local community.
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| The Micromagic of Microcredit
January 8, 2008 Journal Articles Karol Boudreaux,
Tyler Cowen |
| Can microcredit achieve the massive changes its proponents claim? Is it the solution to poverty in the developing world, or something more modest- a way to empower the poor, particularly poor women, with some control over their lives and their assets? |
