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Drugs for guns

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Social Media Revolution

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  1. China: 1,333,010,000
  2. India: 1,169,050,000
  3. United States: 307,411,000
  4. Facebook: 300,000,000
  5. Indonesia: 229,965,000

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List of countries by population
300 Million and On

Why poor countries are poor

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“We still don’t have a good word to describe what is missing in Cameroon, indeed, in poor countries across the world. But we are starting to understand what it is. Some people call it “social capital,” or maybe “trust.” Others call it “the rule of law,” or “institutions.” But these are just labels. The problem is that Cameroon, like other poor countries, is a topsy-turvy world in which it’s in most people’s interest to take action that directly or indirectly damages everyone else. The incentives to create wealth in any way at all are turned on their heads just as surely at the roof of the school library.

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Out of the box

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Sodobni svet kljub pretiranemu zamegljevanju, zapletanju in očitnim prevaram ni nerazumljiv, ni neprepoznaven, pač pa je – če zastavimo prava vprašanja – celo bolj zanimiv, kot si mislimo. Vse kar potrebujemo, je nov način gledanja nanj.

Steven Levitt