You may respond to any of the following questions (singly or in combination).
But be sure to use specific examples or insights from Easterly’s THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN and/or Lopes’ AFRICA IN TRANSFORMATION to substantiate your arguments.
1. Easterly seems to prefer ‘bottom up’ to ‘top down’ solutions when it comes to foreign aid. What does he mean by ‘bottom up,’ and does he tell us how such bottom-up solutions can actually be implemented?
2. What does Easterly think needs to be done in order to make the ‘free market’ system work as well for Africa’s economic development as it seems to have for the West’s economic development?
Do you buy his argument, especially following the 2008 global economic crisis?