Authors:

  • Kenneth Rogoff

Excerpt

Foreign-Aid Follies. Kenneth Rogoff, January 6, 2014, Opinion. "The huge gap between the world’s richest and poorest countries remains one of the great moral dilemmas for the West. It also presents one of the greatest challenges for development economics. Do we really know how to help countries overcome poverty? In his eloquently written and deeply researched new book The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality, Princeton University’s Angus Deaton urges caution. For those interested in world poverty, it is unquestionably the most important book on development assistance to appear..." Link verified June 19, 2014