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China's leaders are making a huge bet: that their 1.3 billion people will gain more and better new jobs from the opening of foreign markets and the inflow of new capital than they will lose from the idling of state-supported industries and farms that can't compete with the more efficient producers that will have access to China. The 143 other WTO members are making a similar bet: that they will lose less business by opening themselves wider to China's exports of, say, textiles and apparel, than they will gain through new factories in China...
...huge inflow of campaign money is a grave threat to our democracy and it is growing. Gore is committed to cleaning up the system by banning soft money, the unlimited corporate, individual and labor donations that flow into party coffers. His commitment to reform is not new. He proposed full public financing of campaigns when he was first elected to Congress, to completely rid Washington of the overpowering influence of the special-interests...
...give the Palestinians virtually all of the West Bank, to surrender a large measure of control over Jerusalem, and to recognize a Palestinian state bordering Jordan and Egypt (which means that the perennial Israeli demand for a demilitarized Palestinian state evaporates: it will be impossible to monitor the inflow of weapons into Palestine...
...Tanzania, school enrollment, far from falling a third since 1993, has changed little. And the inflow of new aid, which far exceeds external debt service, is helping Tanzania boost its spending on essential social services. You asserted that the poor in Tanzania and in Africa generally were "hammered" by poor policy advice from the IMF. Not so. The reforms of recent years are helping farmers to sell their crops again, schools to have proper textbooks and hospitals to have the drugs they need...
There are no quick fixes to solving endemic problems in living standards. It requires the constant inflow of many thousands of the best and the brightest (what we at Harvard purport to be) dedicating themselves to the systems that will develop the seed varieties and better production techniques to grow more food, develop the packaging to guarantee its freshness, build the roads and the trucks to distribute it efficiently and design the technologically sophisticated ovens to cook it. Business people all over the world are driving all of the these functions...