What Oliver Kim thinks about politics
Development economist and economic historian who writes the Global Developments newsletter. He works on East Asian growth — Taiwanese land reform, Korean industrial policy — and on what the East Asian record does and does not tell other poor countries.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Oliver Kim has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAs scholars like Nicolas van de Walle have pointed out, aid can also foster an unhealthy dependency—in his coinage, many African states live in a state of “permanent crisis”, where aid is large enough to reshape (and warp) the political economy around it, but not large enough to be fundamentally transform countries’ economies.
↗A World Without Aid?global-developments.org 4th of 7 in this piece