@CBlatts on the UN's development agenda:
What’s astonishing to me is that the UN can spend two decades setting the world’s development agenda and never utter the words “industrialize”, “firms”, or “exports”. This op-ed was no exception.
I have not done the math, but here’s a conjecture: unless you are sitting on a billion barrels of crude, it’s practically impossible to become a middle-income country without an industrial sector.
The whole post is good, so I recommend a full read. Also, on a personal note, I had coffee with Chris Blattman last Friday when he came to speak at my department. It was awesome. I got more advice than I can fully absorb and admitted to being a part of the development generation who basically decided to go to graduate school based on this post. Apparently, I'm in good company.
What’s astonishing to me is that the UN can spend two decades setting the world’s development agenda and never utter the words “industrialize”, “firms”, or “exports”. This op-ed was no exception.
I have not done the math, but here’s a conjecture: unless you are sitting on a billion barrels of crude, it’s practically impossible to become a middle-income country without an industrial sector.
The whole post is good, so I recommend a full read. Also, on a personal note, I had coffee with Chris Blattman last Friday when he came to speak at my department. It was awesome. I got more advice than I can fully absorb and admitted to being a part of the development generation who basically decided to go to graduate school based on this post. Apparently, I'm in good company.
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