This book is a strong rebuttal of Jeffery Sach’s work, The End of Poverty. Easterly’s thesis is, over the last 60 years USAID’s, World Bank’s, etc., top-down method to eradicate poverty has been a total failure.

 

Easterly calls the traditional approach of top-down the Planners Approach while he calls agents for change in an alternative approach the Searchers. He compares the two…