Reminds me how the UN money here is diverting skilled students away from private enterprise to orgnaizing conferences in Rio de Jaineiro.
Feb 10, 2009
Foreign aid
Easterly has made a nice summary of the conference he organized on foreign aid here. Among the presentations, Duflo and Easterly made interesting slides, but my favourite comment is this one, by June Arunga: "Aid money is diverting African skilled professionals away from private enterprise to writing proposals for NGOs.”
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...or to take notes at expert meetings
...or to organise not one, but 'a series of conferences' in various exotic and non-exotic but equally appealing locations.
Maria
...or to write useless paper and blog entries instead of be working with real people...
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