Perhaps it is a sign of how far “behind” certain parts of the world are with regards to “development,” that the most dynamic, and probably the best publicized, debate about the economic future of poor regions in recent years, has been between three economists. On one side of the argument is Jeffrey Sachs, the author of “The End of Poverty,” and on the other is William Easterly, whose “White Man’s Burden” ridicules Sachs as a modern version of a 19th-century utopian. ...

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