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https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/a-development-economist-back-from-africa-considers-poverty-at-home

"In 2007, his work found a #global audience with “The Bottom Billion,” an analysis of why the #world’s #poorest #economies were diverging from, rather than catching up with, more prosperous ones. Last year, he published “Left Behind,” which he summarized to me as “a diagnosis of the same bloody problem for #poor places in #rich countries as for poor countries.”