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Without a stock of trained administrators no development strategy of any kind can even begin, whichever theory of growth you hold.

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Subjectinfrastructure
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infrastructure Building the large physical things -- reservoirs, roads, pipelines -- and why some countries have stopped being able to.

Mental modelBottlenecks

CitesAdam Smith

What Oliver Kim actually said

  1. Oliver Kim Development economist and economic historian who writes…
    The fact remains that without a stock of capable administrators, industrial policy and export targeting and infrastructure-building—or even Adam Smith’s minimum of “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice”—are a nonstarter.

    Where this was said

    ↗No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960global-developments.org

    21 Jan 2025

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