To be fair, Sachs was foreign to Ireland, and giving him a limo rather than say a Big Mac-stained VW Golf is certainly aid. What Yglesias probably withholds — befitting a gentleman — is that Sachs also expensed his hotel movie rental of ‘Norbit’. One can only speculate how much Greek debt Sachs advised the Irish government to buy up in 2007 ‘given its risk free collateralization’.
To be fair, Sachs was foreign to Ireland, and giving him a limo rather than say a Big Mac-stained VW Golf is certainly aid. What Yglesias probably withholds — befitting a gentleman — is that Sachs also expensed his hotel movie rental of ‘Norbit’. One can only speculate how much Greek debt Sachs advised the Irish government to buy up in 2007 ‘given its risk free collateralization’.
Republic of Ireland paying for Jeffery Sachs limo rides:
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/05/irish-aid-makes-jeffrey-sachs-a-foreign-aid-project.php