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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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Country
Poor
Poor Countries
Resources
Wasting
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Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.
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Freedom
Bottles
Top Down
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Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.
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America
Country
Entrepreneur
Other Countries
Developed
Entrepreneurs
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Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.
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Office
Poverty
Village
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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Creating
Level Playing Field
Motivated
Weak
Field
Playing Field
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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Poor Countries
Rich Countries
Aid
Failed
Sending
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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Best Way
Dirt
Poor People
Poverty
Best People Way
Highway
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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Commerce
Evidence
Centuries
Several
Transformative
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A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan
Anathema
Diverse
Hierarchy
Population
Tribes
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Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.
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Pakistan
Rooted
Aid
Disproportionate
Riddled
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When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
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Recruitment
Beholden
Extremists
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We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
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Allies
Citizens
Enduring
Governments
Sustained
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China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.
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Better Off
China
Energy
Infinite
Wind
Would Be
Direction
Frankly
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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Technology
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Unusual
World
Became
Beginning
Bottom-Up
In The Beginning
Innovations
Standard
Technologies
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Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.
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Barack
Foreign Aid
Reform
Ripe
Obama
Aid
World Way America
Area
Barack Obama
Policies
Relates
Talked
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The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and commerce is certainly a force that could add value for Afghanis.
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Afghanistan
Commerce
Phones
Proliferation
Adds
Cell
Cell Phones
Proves
Rapid
Spreads
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In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.
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Car
America
Little Money
People
Salary
Work Car Time
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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Loyalty
Allegiance
Cold
Cold War
Poor Countries
Aid
Creates
Governments
Instituted
Sending
Studies
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