Is `Global Development' dead?

The case for optimism on the possibilities for economic expansion and continued improvements in human welfare

There is much food for thought in a piece by David Oks and Henry Williams over at American Affairs on the “slow death of global development” (including in Africa).

I do not endorse all the claims made in the piece (see below). However, I hope that academics and practitioners working in the field of international development read it and think carefully ab…