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...would have criminalized Jesus Christ.' HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate, on a Republican-sponsored bill that would have punished those who aid illegal immigrants...
...years after its independence from Britain, Malawi had a per capita GDP of around $70. Today, despite nearly half a billion dollars a year in foreign aid, that figure stands at $600 - still among the lowest in the world. And Malawi isn't alone. While most of the developing world's economies have grown at around 4% per year since 1970, a significant number of countries, largely in Africa, are actually worse off now than they were a half-century ago. Even as globalization lifts much of Asia from poverty, these unlucky nations seem caught in a riptide of poverty...
...they have managed to become capitalist powerhouses in only a generation. At best, A Farewell to Alms is woefully naive; at worst, willfully reductionist. But Clark is right on a least one point: the industrialized world's prescription for affluence - good government, efficient markets and generous transfusions of foreign aid - has done little to spread prosperity to countries like Malawi. As he writes, "There is no simple economic medicine that will guarantee growth...
...terrifically readable - and far more convincing - The Bottom Billion, former World Bank research director Paul Collier offers another take on why aid is so ineffective. For one, it's often inefficiently distributed: according to one survey in Ghana, only about 1% of medical aid actually made it to hospitals. And foreign aid is sometimes channeled into military spending - about 11% of the total, according to Collier's best estimate - or squirreled away in Swiss banks by kleptocrats. But Collier primarily blames a phenomenon known in economics circles as "Dutch disease...
While the lack of pillows or phones may be little more than a petty annoyance for some and a non-issue for others, there are some students at the College for whom the new policy is a major inconvenience. Despite the administration’s promise to make financial aid available for students to buy cell phones to replace the red phones and the availability of pillows on request, the fact remains that the burden on such students could have been significantly reduced by a timelier announcement of the policy...