Aisha Zafar
Prof. Muhammad Kabir
PSC 102
Final paper
Sachs v Easterly: Ending Poverty & Economic Development
Foreign aid is a voluntary transaction of resources from one government to another. Resources can go beyond physical cash, such as food aid, institutions, debt relief and etc. To give aid is to assist the recipient government of economic development. It is to overall progress the lives of citizens suffering in poverty. By giving aid, it can be beneficial to all parties included, the donor and the recipient but this is not always the case. Both The End Of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs and The White Man’s Burden by William Easterly asses in ending poverty and economic development. Does foreign aid actually provide economic growth? By using …show more content…
These two authors approach overseas aid in two different ways.Sachs takes the top-bottom approach, while Easterly takes on the bottom-top. The top-down approach is to plan a goal on what is already existing, for instance Sachs mentions the Millennium project. This project is to achieve a certain set of goals by a time for individuals in developing countries. It’s aim is to extinguish extreme poverty, achieve education and equality, sanitation, and to overall, not only improve, but to ensure the stability of the people's health/life. “To meet these needs for an entire population requires a decade or more of investments in physical and human capital” (Sachs 293). This is what Easterly argues in The White Man’s Burden. He argues that this overarching goal will not suffice do to the fact of not having enough time. As well as these goals will be achieved is the recipient themselves are willingly agreed on terms, and accepts the aid. This does not always follow through because the poor countries are not agreed on terms of receiving, or it is far too difficult to salvage up the proper amount of resources. For the top-down approach, a Planner believes they have the key in hand and all it needs to happen is to execute the carefully laid out plan to end poverty. On the opposite spectrum, the bottom-top approach from Easterly is arguing the exact opposite of Sachs approach. “A Searcher hopes to find the answer to individual problems only by trial and error experimentation”(Easterly 6). Unlike a Planner, of focusing on the overall goal of diminishing poverty, a Searcher has a goal to make specific task work. “Poor people die not only because of the world's indifference to their poverty, but also because of ineffective efforts by those who care” (Easterly
Prof. Muhammad Kabir
PSC 102
Final paper
Sachs v Easterly: Ending Poverty & Economic Development
Foreign aid is a voluntary transaction of resources from one government to another. Resources can go beyond physical cash, such as food aid, institutions, debt relief and etc. To give aid is to assist the recipient government of economic development. It is to overall progress the lives of citizens suffering in poverty. By giving aid, it can be beneficial to all parties included, the donor and the recipient but this is not always the case. Both The End Of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs and The White Man’s Burden by William Easterly asses in ending poverty and economic development. Does foreign aid actually provide economic growth? By using …show more content…
These two authors approach overseas aid in two different ways.Sachs takes the top-bottom approach, while Easterly takes on the bottom-top. The top-down approach is to plan a goal on what is already existing, for instance Sachs mentions the Millennium project. This project is to achieve a certain set of goals by a time for individuals in developing countries. It’s aim is to extinguish extreme poverty, achieve education and equality, sanitation, and to overall, not only improve, but to ensure the stability of the people's health/life. “To meet these needs for an entire population requires a decade or more of investments in physical and human capital” (Sachs 293). This is what Easterly argues in The White Man’s Burden. He argues that this overarching goal will not suffice do to the fact of not having enough time. As well as these goals will be achieved is the recipient themselves are willingly agreed on terms, and accepts the aid. This does not always follow through because the poor countries are not agreed on terms of receiving, or it is far too difficult to salvage up the proper amount of resources. For the top-down approach, a Planner believes they have the key in hand and all it needs to happen is to execute the carefully laid out plan to end poverty. On the opposite spectrum, the bottom-top approach from Easterly is arguing the exact opposite of Sachs approach. “A Searcher hopes to find the answer to individual problems only by trial and error experimentation”(Easterly 6). Unlike a Planner, of focusing on the overall goal of diminishing poverty, a Searcher has a goal to make specific task work. “Poor people die not only because of the world's indifference to their poverty, but also because of ineffective efforts by those who care” (Easterly