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Larry Diamond

Larry Diamond is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.

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Paul Collier has trenchantly identified the core obstacle to lifting impoverished countries out of poverty. They are “structurally unable to provide the public goods” necessary for economic development and broad improvements in...
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