{"id":398,"date":"2010-04-08T10:55:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T13:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ufba.br\/kant\/?p=398"},"modified":"2010-04-08T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T13:55:27","slug":"for-or-against-official-development-assistance-webcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ufba.br\/kant\/2010\/04\/08\/for-or-against-official-development-assistance-webcast\/","title":{"rendered":"For or Against Official Development Assistance? &#8211; Webcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.constantcontact.com\/render?v=001lit4Td5f-aVOBFhmb87qbfgT0WAVP45x4gjXPrT2SrsKv9e0czGYVAUV3O1YwZV7OFH5CampxNea4iPXXCyHun8aEwLK2qeKTVjg0pK4Ock%3D\">For or Against Official Development Assistance? &#8211; Webcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The question of foreign aid&#8217;s impact on economic growth and development is highly controversial and excites polarised opinions. Optimistic views of aid are exemplified by those of Jeffrey Sachs, who calls for a doubling of worldwide aid flows as a moral obligation of rich countries that will &#8216;send forth mighty currents of hope&#8217; and lead to &#8216;the end of poverty&#8217;. In contrast, William Easterly is a vocal sceptic, highlighting aid&#8217;s apparent historic inability to buy growth. And today, in the midst of a serious global economic crisis, where aid is arguably more needed than ever, the attention of both the aid community and decision-makers is on Dambisa Moyo&#8217;s &#8216;Dead Aid&#8217;, which argues for a complete cessation of aid flows to Africa. This event will provide a balanced overview of the academic literature that has evaluated the effectiveness of aid across countries. Focus will be on the aggregate impact of aid; that is, its effect on country-wide indicators, putting both recent and past literature and insights in perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For or Against Official Development Assistance? &#8211; Webcast. The question of foreign aid&#8217;s impact on economic growth and development is highly controversial and excites polarised opinions. Optimistic views of aid are exemplified by those of Jeffrey Sachs, who calls for a doubling of worldwide aid flows as a moral obligation of rich countries that will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,12],"tags":[20,36],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direito-natural","category-direitos-humanos","category-politica","tag-direitos-humanos","tag-politica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ufba.br\/kant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ufba.br\/kant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ufba.br\/kant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ufba.br\/kant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ufba.br\/kant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ufba.br\/kant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ufba.br\/kant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ufba.br\/kant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ufba.br\/kant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}