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those policies targeted at universal primary education have had tremendous progressive consequences over the long term, while others had less impact.

These countries combine highly educated populations; a size that allows for coherence; and successful positions in the global division of labour. They are sufficiently connected to the mainstream to benefit from its knowledge and sufficiently on the edge to think freely and experiment.

his relatively free-market policies allowed Chile to flourish financially and become the leader in South America by several economic indicators.

My case is that certain kinds of states, driven by utopian plans and an authoritarian disregard for the values, desires, and objections of their subjects, are indeed a mortal threat to human well-being.

Global Financial Crisis in 2008 was the pivot point. Until then, “globalization” seemed inexorable and global trade expanded (as a share of global production) almost every year. Since then, global trade has been shrinking, trade barriers have proliferated, and onshoring has replaced offshoring. Until 2008, the number of democracies around the world

Perilous Options: Special Operations as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy (Vandenbroucke 1993).

There are still a few regions with very high fertility rates—notably in sub-Saharan Africa—and as a result, living standards are not yet rising at the rates needed to end poverty in those places. The expectation is that with more urbanization and longer years of schooling, especially for girls, fertility rates will decline in those places as well.