23.11.09

Start with Free Elections

Accordingly with Daron Acemoglu:

"And yet while Sachs and Diamond offer good insight into certain aspects of poverty, they share something in common with Montesquieu and others who followed: They ignore incentives. People need incentives to invest and prosper; they need to know that if they work hard, they can make money and actually keep that money. And the key to ensuring those incentives is sound institutions - the rule of law and security and a governing system that offers opportunities to achieve and innovate. That's what determines the haves from the have-nots - not geography or weather or technology or disease or ethnicity."

"Put simply: Fix incentives and you will fix poverty. And if you wish to fix institutions, you have to fix governments."

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