: We're going to skip industry and go directly to services!
: We make shirts
: We're going to ban physical money!
: Buy our shirts
: Here's an incredibly complicated tax plan!
: Would you like a shirt?
: Education? Who needs it!!
: Shirts
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: We will smash India and retake Kashmir
: We also make pants
: Down with Islamophobia (unless it's in China)!
: Buy our pants
: Let's prop up our exchange rate and get bailed out by the IMF!
: Pants
: We have nuclear bombs!!!
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: Psst, guys, you should make electronics too
: ?? We make shirts. And pants.
: Electronics are higher value-added, and help you move up the value chain
: Can people wear them?
: And electronics facilitate idea spillovers...
: But...shirts...pants...
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: We used to make shirts and pants and electronics, but then we stopped
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: Why?
: Because we realized it's easier to chop down trees and dig up rocks instead
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: But how will you advance beyond lower middle income?
: That's tomorrow. Today is today!
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: We make shirt and pants too!
: Welcome, brother!!
: But we're taking a quick break to shoot some minorities
: Wait, why??
: Well, you know...you can't have them mininority-ing all over the place.
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: Keep at it, folks! Keep making electronics and you can get rich like me?
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: Oh yeah, why don't you tell them how to build a domestic car industry
: Hush, you!
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: You could just make cars for
like us!
: Hey
, you're just us but upside down
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: Guys, how do you do this "development" thing?
: Well, first you should have political unity.
: And it helps not to have much oil, avoid the Resource Curse.
: And you should integrate Islamists peacefully into your political process.
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: Question: Does it help if I have highly unequal land ownership?
: No.
: What if I elect a right-wing crazy man who promises to kill all the bad people?
: Nope, don't do that either.
: How about deforestation? Is that good?
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: Buahaha, I am the CHAMPION! Y'all are amateurs!
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What's your secret?
: OK first, terrorize the populace with hunger and political chaos for 30 years so they embrace growth at any cost...
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: Yes?
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: No no, you're doing it all wrong
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: Wait, what?
: Stop subsidizing exports, stop picking winners, just deregulate, cut taxes, and float your exchange rate!
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: You mean, like you did back when you were developing?
: ...uhh...um...well...
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that was before we had our extractive multinationals booted up! it’s different now! 
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