Giving wisely

Authors debate how to help the poor internationally | Marvin Olasky

Profiles of good U.S. poverty-fighting groups make up much of this issue, and we also have two articles on helping the poor abroad. Some key questions in both areas are similar: How much can compassionate people help the poor, and how much do they have to do themselves? How much of the problem is material and how much is spiritual?

Prime antagonists in a raging secular debate are economists Jeffrey Sachs, who favors top-down, big-spending programs, and William Easterly, who advocates decentralized, bottom-up approaches (WORLD, Jan. 11). So far Sachs is winning by style—he jetted around with actress Angelina Jolie—and Easterly by substance. When Easterly in The Washington Post thoughtfully reviewed Sachs' book The End of Poverty, Sachs replied with an ad hominem attack on his "crude . . . simplistic . . . vacuous . . . tendentious" critic.

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September 01, 2007, Vol. 22, No. 32

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