Aid Watch: "If You Don't Trust People You Know, It's Over!"
NYU Professor Leonard Wantchekon recently made a presentation about the impact of slavery on intra-community trust in Benin. Trust is essential to economic development, and Wantchekon points out that the legacy of slavery in nations such as Benin is mistrust.
Willaim Easterly writes:
Stories like these point to the importance of bottom-up approaches to development. One-size-fits-all grand plans inevitably lack the cultural specificity to tease out and cope with these potential barriers.
Here is a video clip:
Leonard Wantchekon on the Lack of Intra-Community Trust in Benin from DRI on Vimeo.
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