Elon Musk and Donald Trump Are Not Fixing U.S. Foreign Aid but Destroying It

For almost twenty-five years, William Easterly, a free-market economist at New York University, has been a prominent academic critic of foreign-aid programs. In his 2001 book, “The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics,” Easterly wrote that decades of development assistance from the West had failed to spur growth and relieve poverty in many poor countries. Moreover, he argued that U.S. aid programs had propped up autocratic rulers, such as Meles […]
Elon Musk and Donald Trump Are Not Fixing U.S. Foreign Aid but Destroying It