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CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Best and Worst of Aid 2010 (Incentives, Accountability...
DRI’s 2010 annual conference presented new findings, discussions and debates on the best and worst of what happened in aid. The full conference agenda is available here. More presentations and audio...
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PODCAST: Professor Easterly on Development and Individual Freedoms at...
What should we do to end world poverty? Not only do we not know the answer to this question, said Professor Easterly, but this is also the wrong question to ask. He joined Yuval Levin (National Affairs...
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LECTURE: Mapping Africa’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Mellena Haile speaks to Mieko Ikegame of the U.N. Africa’s entrepreneurs get far too little credit for their contributions to economic growth, and too little help from the international community to...
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VIDEO: Professor Easterly Speaks at the Carnegie Council
Why is honesty so important? Professor Easterly discussed this cardinal value in his own career, and in the context of international development, with Julia Kennedy and Devin T. Stewart at the Carnegie...
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Wesleyan’s Forum for International Development
David Rice, DRI’s Executive Director, will be speaking at Wesleyan University’s Forum for International Development this Saturday February 18th. David will give the keynote address “Is it Better to...
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Why aren’t children learning? (and what we can do about it)
On Tuesday, February 28th, Abhijit Banerjee, MIT Professor of Economics, will discuss how he is rethinking the fight against poverty in his lecture Why aren’t children learning? (and what we can do...
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Does Aid Promote Autocracy?
This is NOT the Nobel Symposium panel with Jeff Sachs and others, for which the video isn’t available yet. It IS a 3-minute clip of a talk Bill gave at the Swedish think tank Timbro while he was in...
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Beyond the Nation: Pioneering Studies in How Development Spreads
Is the emphasis on nations as actors in development excessive and obsolete? Come to DRI’s Annual Conference on Friday November 15th! Studies to be presented will show how development spreads with the...
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The Tyranny of Experts Book Launch
Last Monday we had the pleasure of hosting a few of our closest friends at Cooper Union’s Great Hall to celebrate the launch of Professor Easterly’s new book, The Tyranny of Experts: Economists,...
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2014 Annual Conference “Cities and Development: Urban Determinants of Success”
DRI’s annual conference took place on November 18, 2014 in the Rosenthal Pavilion of NYU Kimmel Center. 350 guests attended to hear the presentations and discuss research that examines cities as...
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