<incom> Broad & Cavanagh, The Hijacking of the Development Debate

[Soenke Zehle]

An excellent read, lots of useful stats, Soenke

Robin Broad and John Cavanagh, "The Hijacking of the Development Debate:
How Friedman and Sachs Got It wrong," World Policy Journal, Summer 2006
<http://www.ifg.org/pdf/Broad%20Cavanagh.pdf>

"Thomas Friedman and Jeffrey Sachs — articulate, learned globetrotting 
pundits — would seem an unlikely duo to hijack the development debate. 
Yet, through their best-selling books — Friedman’s The World Is Flat and 
Sachs’s The End of Poverty — their prominent exposure in the U.S. media, 
and endorsements by celebrities like Bono, the superstar lead singer of 
the rock group U2, they have done precisely that. Just a half decade 
after protests by citizen groups in Latin America and elsewhere 
discredited two decades of market-oriented neoliberal dogma, Friedman 
and Sachs have narrowed the debate with simplistic slogans of “more aid” 
and “more trade.” They have done so by putting forward myths about the 
poor, economic development, and the global economy."