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Drawn from what Oliver Kim said
government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.
Precisely how much the ancient continuity of East Asian states matters for development is still a little murky, and the delineation with colonial legacies is still an area of active debate—but the balance of evidence suggests that the legacies of these pre-colonial states stretched through the colonial period, extending even into the post-independence era.
Where this was said
↗No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960global-developments.org
All 8 korrents from this piecethis one is 5th
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I hold this tooNothing near enough to show. As of the last pass () this claim had been compared with the other 13145 claims in the archive and none was close enough in subject or wording to put here. That can change as the archive grows — it is not a judgement that this claim stands alone.