As Nobel prize winner, Douglass North, once said, "It is polities that shape economic performance because they define and enforce the economic rules of the game."

With Justin Yifu Lin and Celestin Monga in Ahmedabad, at the African Development Bank meetings, launching their interesting new book on Development "Beating the Odds: Jumpstarting Developing Countries."

Let's open our minds to new ways of spurring development but underpin it all with building institutions.

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