Who gains from a poor country’s growth is a question of political economy and geopolitics, never a purely technical one.

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• Industrial policy that grows a poor country’s economy does not automatically reduce its poverty. OKOliver Kim29 Jul 2025
• Development economists can contribute far less to a poor country’s growth policy in real time than either they or their critics assume. NSNoah Smith6 May 2026
• The climate policy everyone has quietly assumed is that poorer countries stay poor, and that is the wrong answer. BMBranko Milanovic18 Nov 2017
• Once wealth became a function of commerce rather than land, who is rich and powerful became mostly a question of how industrialised a country is. SPSarah Paine9 Jun 2026
• What keeps poor countries poor is political and economic instability, not a shortage of well-designed programmes. CBChris Blattman27 Jun 2013

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