The Aid Trap

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Dean of Columbia Business School and the Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance, Glenn Hubbard, discusses how the same energy and money we devote to charity can be devoted to local business to help end poverty in developing nations. The Aid Trap: Hard Truths about Ending Poverty, written with William Duggan, shows how supporting the local business sector of poor countries would let citizens take charge of growing their own economies.

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