Making non-profits accountable

From Bill Easterly’s blog post:

…extreme dissatisfaction with aid agencies who ignore even the most obvious signs that some aid effort is not working. (Example cited in the Brookings book: a World Bank computer kiosk program in India celebrated as a “success” in its “Empowerment” sourcebook. Except that the computers sat in places without functioning electricty or Internet [...]

Libertarianism and Foreign Aid

I just read a post entitled “Relief For Haiti: How Student Liberty Organizations Can Help“, on the Students for Liberty blog.

While I agree that private charity is generally preferable to government aid and that this is an opportunity for libertarian organizations to emphasize how private charity can be and is a formidable force, I can’t [...]