The Hijacking of the Development Debate: How Friedman and Sachs Got it Wrong

The popular backlash to the Washington Consensus (an agenda of enforced open market policies) has been witnessed in protest marches and anti-globalisation campaigns for quite some time. This revolutionary mood, the authors argue, has been hijacked by the influencial, articulate voices of Jeffrey Sachs and Thomas Friedman. This article presents a critique of these two figures' work, and warns of the risks their policy prescriptions entail.

The Hijacking of the Development Debate: How Friedman and Sachs Got It Wrong’, RobinBroad and JohnCavanaghWorld Policy Journal, 23(2) (2006): 21–30. © 2006 by the World Policy Institute. Reprinted with permission.
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