Hidden Rules of Development
Stephen BrienRe-reading the development record through its anomalies
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How a Government’s Real Priorities Get Revealed
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Malaysia and China’s policies look alike but reveal opposite priorities. Malaysia shelters its champions, tests its zone; China shelters a few firms, tests the rest.
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A government’s real priority is revealed at th...
The Cost of Prioritising Transformation: What Sorted Eight Growing Economies
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Eight economies grew fast and alike for a generation, then split: four reached the technology frontier; four never did.
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All eight had firms selling into world markets and facing standards their governments did no...
What I’ve been reading
This week’s two posts asked the same question from opposite ends: what makes a change to a country’s rules actually last? Why Political Reform Is Difficult to Sustain worked it out in general; Whatever Trump Builds, the Next President Inher...
Whatever Trump Builds, the Next President Inherits
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Judge a presidency by two things, not the noise: what a leader will pay to get his way, and what he can make outlast him.
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This presidency splits into two opposite projects: tariffs, deportations, and the efficie...
Why Political Reform Is Difficult to Sustain
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A government can pass every law on the books and still be bluffing, and break the law in secret and still be changing the country for good.
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What holds a country’s rules in place is not law but what its powerful...
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I’ve worked across government, development and strategy in the UK, Middle East and Africa, and led the Legatum Prosperity Index. I’m a Visiting Senior Fellow at Artha Global & Future Africa, and Chair of the UK Social Security Advisory Committee.
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