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Nancy Birdsall

Nancy Birdsall is President of the Center for Global Development.

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Why globalization doesn't lift all boats.

Nancy Birdsall

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Collier’s diagnosis of the problems of the “bottom billion” is brilliant. Here is what I like about it (three S’s): Sovereignty. Collier recognizes that it is time to deep-six the nintheenth-century swoon...
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