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Jan 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Earlier today, @ricardo_hausman participated in the @wef panel, "Venezuela: What Next?"
In this clip, Ricardo addresses the U.S. three-step plan of stability, recovery, and then transition:
"There is stability now. But the reason there's stability now is extreme repression. I mean, it's the stability of a cemetery, right? It's because we are oppressed that they are happy that it's stable, so it's not a solution to any problem. Second, recovery. I would argue that there cannot be recovery without rights."
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Here, @ricardo_hausman highlights Venezuela's political stability as the key differentiator between this situation and the failed regime change in Iraq.
"We have a unified country behind a leadership and a program. That is the hard part. That's why I go berserk when people say, we don't want to make the same mistake we made in Iraq. What the hell are you talking about?"
Our report summarizing the findings of our two-year engagement research in #SouthAfrica is out!
This thread highlights its main points. 1/12🧵
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🌈The hope of the #RainbowNation that captivated the world after apartheid is still a vision rather than a reality. While #SouthAfrica’s economic potential remains unrealized, the promise of the Rainbow Nation remains alive. 2/12
Dec 23, 2020 • 22 tweets • 19 min read
At the Growth Lab, an interdisciplinary team of researchers explores the secret of #EconomicGrowth from both an academic and applied angle. These are our most important academic papers of the past decade on #EconomicComplexity. (1/22) growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/academic-resea…
The economic complexity approach starts from the assumption that technology takes the form of tools, codes and #Knowhow. Knowhow grows by putting different bits of knowhow in different brains. (2/22)
