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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 7</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 8</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 9</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 10</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 11</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Growth Diagnostics in Practice, Part 1: Senegal’s Path from Malthus to Premature Deindustrialisation - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Figure 14</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Now let’s see how the collective action problem and By-product and Political Entrepreneurs theories play out in each of these scenarios.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The combination of these values for each variable represents an effective protest that overcomes the collective action problem and reaches a change in the status quo.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Collective Delusion: A Critical Look at Protest Efficacy Through the Lens of Decision Making - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>In this case the combination of high k and very low B makes these protests very ineffective in reaching their collective objectives. The explanation for these protests is very accurately provided by Olson’s Byproduct Theory</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Velvet Revolution case is a bit unusual because, when we look at the variables, it seems most likely for a change in the status quo to occur. Nevertheless, this is primarily due to the low C in this scenario. The low C arises from the fact that the defenders of the status quo are already prepared for the staged change in the status quo and have plans to reinstitute the old dynamics in the “new system.” This was the case in most revolutions in the Soviet satellites after the fall of the Berlin Wall and in many Soviet republics after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In the context of Central Europe, voucher privatization was used to reinstate the old power dynamics, ensuring that the elites in the old system remained the elites in the new system, which I define as a non-change of the status quo. Similarly, in the post-Soviet republics, the old political elites became the new oligarchs, thereby becoming the economic and political elites in the new system. I find this type of protest especially interesting, as modeling doesn’t tell us much about the true instrumental nature of these protests in favor of the defenders of the status quo.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - China’s Exchange rate system reform Explained - In the past 40 years, China has undergone a remarkable economic transformation, positioning itself as a potential global hegemon. A key factor behind this extraordinary growth has been the reform of China's exchange rate system, which enabled the nation to emerge as the world's factory while effectively fending off speculative attacks on its currency. In this blog, I will provide a simplified explanation of this pivotal process that has reshaped the global economic landscape.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - A Typology of International Educational Development Projects - Education is widely recognised as a crucial contributor to, and part of, prosperity in any country, coming with a variety of both extrinsic and intrinsic values. Due to this, millions of euros are annually invested into a variety of international development projects focused on improving education (Damon, 2016). As a result, these projects are usually portrayed in a positive light and so are accepted by the taxpayers. However, many of these initiatives have minimal or even negative impacts. In this paper, I focus on the key characteristics of international educational development programs. Firstly, I categorise international educational projects to create a typology of four categories of ‘ideal types’. These types are based on the project’s focus on quality or quantity of outcome, and multidimensional simultaneous versus unidimensional asynchronous approach. Secondly, I evaluate the advantages, disadvantages and efficacy of the four main types of development project, with a focus on the two more theoretically complex types; ‘big push’ projects, and individual educational initiatives. To conclude, I note that each type of approach has had successes and failures, and suggest that further research could build on the typology created in this essay to identify unique characteristics of each approach and whether they contribute to success, with a view to transferring characteristics into projects conducted under other approaches.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - A Typology of International Educational Development Projects - In the table above there is a simplified table of benefits and drawbacks of each type of educational project. In the utmost right row, there are costs relative to each other.</image:title>
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