Friday 16 January 2015

The Guy Who Went to the Wrong School

David Ndii argues in an interesting essay in today's Saturday Nation that for a devolved gorvenance system to yield meaningful development, there has to be accountability; and I fully agree.
Jason Lakin argues in a lazily written essay in last weeks issue of The East African that what matters is auditing - in essence a purely mechanical exercise that audits usually are; and I fully disagree.
David's argument is the closest I have seen in independent replication of the thoughts of William Easterly in his 2014 book The Tirany of Experts: Economists, Dictators and the forgotten Rights of the Poor whose thesis I buy.
Jason must surely have gone to the wrong school!

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