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Nancy Birdsall, Abhijit Banerjee, Michael Kremer, and others look at the question, “What helps poor countries grow?”; Sarah Chayes on the future of Afghanistan; Alex Byrne on morality and the brain
A short story by Peter Mountford; poems by Jorie Graham, H. L. Hix, Susan Stewart, and Geoffrey G. O’Brien; poetry criticism by Barbara K. Fischer and Cal Bedient.
Nancy Birdsall
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