My partner and I are both development economists who fundamentally disagree about whether foreign aid helps or hurts poor countries, and it's starting to affect our personal financial decisions about charitable giving and even our career paths. We keep having the same argument where I cite evidence about aid effectiveness and they counter with dependency theory, and we're both getting more entrenched rather than finding any common ground.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who share a life are discovering that their professional expertise leads them to incompatible worldviews about how positive change happens.
“Where Are You with Development economics — why some countries are poor?”
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