Subsahara in Africa - What's the Impetus Behind the Charter City?

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I think some parts of this elopment process are just very slow. I'm still fairly pessimistic about how many, how many will make the kind of nratical transformation that the china made. It's both, you know, protecting those norms by certain kinds of, you know, administrative structures,. state functions that at reinforce them....

Paul Romer makes his second appearance to discuss the failings of economics, how his mass testing plan for COVID-19 would work, what aspects of epidemiology concern him, how the FDA is slowing a better response, his ideas for reopening schools and Major League Baseball, where he agrees with Weyl’s test plan, why charter cities need a new name, what went wrong with Honduras, the development trajectory for sub-Saharan Africa, how he’d reform the World Bank, the underrated benefits of a culture of science, his heartening takeaway about human nature from his experience at Burning Man, and more.

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Recorded May 13th, 2020 Other ways to connect

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