Must read. 15 leading economists, including 3 Nobel winners, argue that $bns of aid dollars can do little to alleviate poverty while we fail to tackle its root causes. Big critique of aid micro-effectiveness agendahttps://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jul/16/buzzwords-crazes-broken-aid-system-poverty …
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+1. Dont stop doing small things that work whilst waiting for big things that might.
+1 evidence needed on both micro and macro action. Danger of buzzwords all around. I wonder if the letter's authors have really looked at the scale of transfer mispricing in poor countries? (eg compared to aid)https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1017320163115503616?s=19 …
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I think this is very wrong: "then instead of assessing the short-term impacts of micro-projects, we should evaluate whole public policies." Replace instead with "as well as", ok. Also I'm not sure what evaluating whole policies means but suspect ppl try to do it already
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Yes. Also what does this mean??
"We need to introduce and enforce real labour legislation"? ('we' is rich country govts in the article) - 1 more reply
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Also why can't we use micro action to tell us something about the macro action? Many micro interventions try to induce systemic changes.
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Is there not a danger that moving away from this could call into Q efficacy of aid itself? Right wing may say more free market, less aid? Still need data to measure structural changes and prioritise. Data on aid/tax lost suggest tax not going to directly transform the position.
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