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Matt Warner: Development with Dignity | The Human Progress Podcast Ep. 20

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The Failure of Copycats Institutions

I think correctly the focus has been on in institutions over the last three decades but incorrectly it has assumed that institutions are these products that you know someone who's familiar and an expert on it can then go and set up an institution somewhere else. I think our approach to spreading the institutions of liberal democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall not succeeding is actually partly responsible for misplaced resentment of liberalism because we have presented liberalism as this gift from foreigners who know better than you what your country needs. We've got to do a better job of mining our piecing cues as outsiders and truly looking at what uh the local vision of change is prioritizing and what initiative it's taking and then support that, says

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