William Easterly

New York University

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Professor of Economics at New York University, and author of The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good and The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor?; former Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development, which has received funding from the Gates Foundation, and has spent 16 years as a research economist at the World Bank

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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has broad support in Uganda for a new law imposing sentences up to life in prison for homosexual acts.

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Bill and Melinda Gates , the Rockefeller Foundation , George Soros and Google are all spending big money on hunger, poverty and global warming.

Can Billionaire Philanthropists Change the World?

Bill and Melinda Gates , the Rockefeller Foundation , George Soros and Google are all spending big money on hunger, poverty and global warming.

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