Development Planning and Policy | Reseach

Taking Institutions Seriously

Rethinking the Political Economy of Development in the Philippines
Published in
Asian Development Review
John Nye | Jun 21, 2011
This essay uses the Philippines as a case study to suggest what is wrong with leading development prescriptions.

What Aid Can’t Do

Reply to Ranis
Published in
Cato Journal
Peter Leeson, David Skarbek | Apr 26, 2011
Leeson and Skarbeck respond to Gustav Ranis' main objections to their article previously published in the Cato Journal.

Out with the BRICs, Time for the TIMBIs

Jack Goldstone | Feb 18, 2011
The last decade has seen the arrival of emerging markets, and investors and pundits alike have shown unbounded excitement about the BRICs—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—as the new sources of the world’s economic growth. However, a focus on the BRICs is already out of date. In half of these countries, demographic patterns have shifted, and the future of the world’s growth now looks set to come from a different set of emerging economies, the TIMBIs: Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil, and India.

The Fatal Conceit of Foreign Intervention

Published in
Advances in Austrian Economics
Christopher Coyne, Rachel Mathers | Jul 01, 2010
The fatal conceit is the assumption that the world can be shaped according to human desires. This chapter argues that the logic of the fatal conceit can be applied to foreign interventions which go beyond the limits of what can be rationally constructed by reason alone. The characteristics outlined in this paper explain why interventions extending beyond the limits of what can be rationally constructed tend to fail.

Land Reform as Social Justice: The Case of South Africa

Published in
Economic Affairs
Karol Boudreaux | Mar 08, 2010
As a result of a very long history of discriminatory legislation, black South Africans suffered substantial harms at the hands of past governments. Following the political transition in 1994, the new…

Book Review: Paul Collier's Wars, Guns, and Votes

Published in
Economic Affairs
Daniel Sacks | Dec 01, 2009
In his latest book, Wars, Guns and Votes, Oxford development economist Paul Collier makes the case for the use of military intervention in developing countries. However, Collier’s call for…

What Can Aid Do?

Published in
Cato Journal
Peter Leeson, David Skarbek | Dec 01, 2009
Foreign aid’s advocates claim aid has been successful. Aid’s critics claim aid has failed. We explain why both camps are correct.

Book Review of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

Published in
Review of Austrian Economics
Johan van der Walt | Nov 16, 2009
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…

Review of Starved for Science

Daniel Sacks | Apr 13, 2009
Enterprise Africa! researcher Daniel Sacks reviews Robert Paarlberg's "Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa."

Starving for Change

Daniel Sacks, Karol Boudreaux |