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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Why Do We Lie About Foreign Aid?
Description: Pablo Yanguas is a research fellow at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester. He is the author of the new book "Why We Lie About Aid: Development and the Messy Politics of Change." In this conversation we discuss the central thesis of his book which is that there is a profound gap between the politics of development, and how economic development is actually achieved on the ground in the developing world. The book is provocative for arguing that the former causes us to misrepresent the latter.   This thesis rings true to my experience covering global dev...