from AidWatch:
In the recent anthology “What Works in Development?,” a group of economists try to sort out what we’ve learned. The picture is grim. There are no policy levers that consistently correlate to increased growth. There is nearly zero correlation between how a developing economy does one decade and how it does the next. There is no consistently proven way to reduce corruption. Even improving governing institutions doesn’t seem to produce the expected results.
Brooks’ list of rejected explanations include slavery and colonial history, bad government and corruption, foreign invasions, geography and climate. I wonder what others who have spent time studying, living or working in Haiti think of the relative weight of these explanatory variables..
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