“William Easterly has argued that technocratic, top-down approaches to development planning, such as embodied in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), are prone to failure, whereas a market-driven, laissez-faire approach to development policy is more likely to succeed, when looking at criteria such as economic growth or poverty reduction.” Do you agree or disagree? Discuss critically. “Joseph Stiglitz has quipped that Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’, which purportedly ensures that the decentralized behaviour of individuals in the market system leads to the social good, is invisible, because it doesn’t actually exist.” Do you agree or disagree? Discuss critically.