Saturday, April 29, 2006
The 2006 Comitment to Development Award
The Center for Global Development and Foreign Policy magazine are holding their annual commitment to development awards, which includes a "people's choice" category which anyone can vote for. The nominees include Bill and Melinda Gates, Bono, Jeff Sachs, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter etc. My vote, however, goes to Bill Easterly, author of The Elusive Quest for Growth and The White Man's Burden, for providing a reality check for development practitioners. Yes, I will agree that Easterly has been pretty polemical, but even so, he has restored some sense of balance to the debate and not let the advocates of increased aid run away with it, as has been the case in the past. Anyways, you can go through the list if you're interested and vote here.
