One sign that poverty is less interesting to American academics is that they've largely moved on to studying inequality.pic.twitter.com/tKbo4O9gGs
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And economists at least are sophisticated enough to understand the distinction.
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"The notion that aid is a meaningful way to reduce global inequality represents an extraordinary failure to grasp the structural forces that produce and perpetuate global inequality. Poor countries don't need charity, they need justice." From
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Poor countries need growth, and clueless prophets to stop telling them what they need.
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