[afro-nets] A New Equity Agenda? (2)

["Claudio Schuftan" <claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn>]

A New Equity Agenda? (2)
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From: Ted Schrecker 

Unfortunately, yes - this is the way academics see it. The analysis in 
this paper is actually not bad, but it is hopelessly decontextualized; 
there is a huge descriptive literature on policy change that is 
relevant.  The ODI paper also ignores the bias built into the World 
Bank's preference for correcting market failures, which bypasses the 
issue of justifiability of a society's initial distribution of 
resources - this after the authors of WDR 2006 have spent quite a bit 
of time pointing out why the initial distribution is important!

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Claudio Schuftan
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