Dr Pablo Yanguas, Research Associate at ESID, sat down with GDI’s Communications and Impact Manager Chris Jordan, to talk about the politics of aid and whether DFID fund Obamacare if the US was a developing country. They also chat about Trump, the Daily Mail, internationalism, pedagogy of aid, political courage, and of course Dr Yanguas’s upcoming book, Why We Lie About Aid.

For more on Dr Pablo Yanguas:

• Political Analysis & Aid Effectiveness Blog
• Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre
• Research Profile

Further reading:

• Public Choices and Policy Change by Merilee S Grindle and John W Thomas
• The case for aid by Jeffrey Sachs in Foreign Policy
• The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier (or further viewing: TED talk by the same)

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