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China has one of the most entrepreneurial cultures on Earth, according to Business Week: The latest numbers from the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) show that China’s rate of self-employment far exceeds that in the U.S.—51.2% versus 7.2%—a gap that hasn’t changed much since 2001, when the data first became [...] From Bill Easterly’s blog post: …extreme dissatisfaction with aid agencies who ignore even the most obvious signs that some aid effort is not working. (Example cited in the Brookings book: a World Bank computer kiosk program in India celebrated as a “success” in its “Empowerment” sourcebook. Except that the computers sat in places without functioning electricty or Internet [...] David Byrne has a short post on Budapest. While a lot of the attractive features of the city will remain for years to come, Byrne’s post implicitly makes the case for visiting now. |
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