government 6
- Industrial policy that grows a poor country’s economy does not automatically reduce its poverty.
- Who gains from a poor country’s growth is a question of political economy and geopolitics, never a purely technical one.
Oliver Kim
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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America 4
- Ending USAID is a humanitarian disaster that still does not doom growth in poor countries, because the flows were always far too small to drive it.
- Foreign aid was a bipartisan American commitment for eight decades, with Republican and Democratic presidents spending within a few billion dollars a year of each other.
Europe 2
- The newly independent states of Africa were largely European inventions, assembled from peoples who had not previously shared a state.
- Japanese colonial rule built a far deeper state in Korea than European rule ever built in sub-Saharan Africa.