When Foreign Aid Fails

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.7 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Foreign aid is meant to alleviate suffering and help poor countries develop. But according to Bill Easterly, a professor of Economics at NYU, it often does the opposite. Instead of helping countries develop, it wastes resources or makes it harder for them to make economic progress. And far from advancing democracy and human rights, it often helps autocrats to stay in power. In this week's episode of The Good Fight podcast, Yascha Mounk and Bill Easterly discuss how political considerations misdirect foreign aid, whether the “development industrial complex” ignores the human rights of the poor, and why foreign aid so often gives a lifeline to authoritarian leaders around the globe. A written transcript of this conversation is available on persuasion.community Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: goodfightpod@gmail.com Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John T. Williams and Rebecca Rashid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Your life is full of times like this.
0:03.0	Oh yeah.
0:04.0	The gaps between the good stuff, like killing time and waiting rooms.
0:07.0	It's not long until you've had enough.
0:09.0	Listeners, it's time for some Tom Bola,
0:12.0	vibing on your tea break
0:14.0	Boca for fun
0:16.0	Chilling with a sponge cake
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0:23.6	Just a bit of bingo.
0:24.8	Tom Bola!
0:26.1	Open for fun!
0:27.6	Terms apply 18 plus.
0:29.0	Please play safely. And the Oh, And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
0:57.0	Hello, my name is Andrew Strollein. I work for Human Rights Watch.
1:07.0	I recently wrote an article for persuasion on The Other Navalny's, looking at other dissidents around the world.
1:13.9	I took four examples and then tried to make sense of what drives such brave people
1:18.0	to put their lives on the line for freedom.
1:21.2	First is Ilham Tote, an ethnic Uyghur economist and critic of the Chinese government.
1:25.8	In the face of the authorities abuses and discrimination against the Uyghur population in the Xinjiang
1:30.4	region, Toti has been a voice of reason and decency.
1:34.7	He was just the kind of person, that kind of peaceful reformer that the authorities should
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