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vernment, Geography, and Growth Jeffrey D. Sachs September/October 2012 -- According to the economist Daron Acemoglu and the political scientist James Robinson, economic development hinges on a single factor: a country's political institutions. More specifically, as they explain in their new book, Why Nati

tical and inclusive economic institutions yet never achieve much development, often due to geographic barriers. That seemed to be the fate awaiting Botswana in 1966, when it gained independence. Back then, the country was one of the poorest places on the planet -- no surprise for a landlocked desert. Bu

Jeffrey D. Sachs September/October 2012 -- According to the economist Daron EFTA_R1_02211669 EFTA02724663 Acemoglu and the political scientist James Robinson, economic development hinges on a single factor: a country's political institutions. More specifically, as they explain in their new book, Why Nat

ical and inclusive economic institutions yet never achieve much development, often due to geographic barriers. That seemed to be the fate awaiting Botswana in 1966, when it gained independence. Back then, the country was one of the poorest places on the planet -- no surprise for a landlocked desert. Bu

e Between State and Society By Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson [US — Penguin Press, UK — Viking, Germany — Fisc

ersity Professors at the University of Chicago and one of only twenty-one people who have held such a position. He has conducted research in Bolivia, Botswana, Chile, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Mauritius, Mexico, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, and South Africa. He was selected as one