Robin Davies (ANU): Public Enemies: The Role of Global Public Goods in Aid Policy Narratives. The aid state in Liberia is creating a hollow democracy: Liberia has been trapped in a pernicious cycle of reliance in which aid begets more aid. Aid in reverse: Jason Hickel on how poor countries develop rich countries. How to give poor people money in order to save the world. This common argument for U.S. foreign aid is actually quite xenophobic. Gautam Nair (Yale): Preferences for International Redistribution in the United States: Self-Interest or World Views? The end of foreign aid as we know it: Trump budget would gut development assistance and fold USAID into State.
