What's Behind Global Poverty?

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
In The White Man's Burden, economics professor William Easterly explains why, after fifty years and more than $2.3 trillion in aid from the West, so much of the world is still plagued by poverty.

Events: William Easterly will be speaking
Tuesday, March 21 at 4:30 pm
NYU’s Africa House in Lipton Hall/D'Agostino Hall
108 West Third Street at MacDougal Street

William Easterly will be reading and signing books
Wednesday, March 22 at 7 pm
Barnes and Noble Astor Place

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