Week #4-Sachs Eastertly
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Monitoring and Evaluation for the Madagascar Compact | MCC | Washington, DC
$0.00N/A - (No Economic Rate of Return analysis was done for this Project as it was still undefined at the time of Compact signing. Therefore total benefits expected from this Project were not calculated) Land Tenure Project 0TBD - (MCC is currently refining the methodology for estimating the number of beneficiaries of its investments in land and property rights.
William Easterly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Russell Easterly (born September 7, 1957) is an American economist, specializing in economic growth and foreign aid . He is a Professor of Economics at New York University , joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC . Easterly is an associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics , the Journal of Economic Growth , and of the Journal of Development Economics . Easterly maintained a blog called "Aid Watch" [ 1 ] where he posted regularly about aid related issues. [ 2 ] He has also spoken at the Templeton Foundation with his contemporary Dambisa Moyo [ 3 ] as well as written in the press to respond to critics such as Jeffrey Sachs and Ha-Joon Chang .
PODCAST: Prof. Easterly speaks about development and individual freedoms at the Columbia Tikvah-Hertog Summer Institute. What should we do to end world poverty? Not only do we not know, but that's the wrong question to ask.
William Easterly
Jeffrey Sachs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeffrey David Sachs ( pronounced /ˈsæks/ ; born November 5, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan ) is an American economist and Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University . One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University , Sachs became known for his role as an adviser to Eastern European and developing country governments during the transition from communism to a market system or during periods of economic crisis. Subsequently he has been known for his work on the challenges of economic development , environmental sustainability , poverty alleviation , debt cancellation , and globalization . Sachs is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's School of Public Health .Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Director - The Earth Institute - Columbia University
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 80 countries. He has twice been named among Time Magazine's 100 most influential world leaders.