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We Don't Know How To Solve Global Poverty And That's A Good Thing

Wednesday 19 May 2010 | 1 hour 39 minutes 15 seconds

This lecture argues that occasions when development economists were more certain about 'the solution to global poverty' have often led to harmful consequences for the world's poor in the long-run. Sceptical criticism is a creative force that redirects attention and effort away from centrally-directed expert solutions towards effective decentralised problem-solving.