The Gulf Arab states would starve on top of a sea of oil without western technology and aid and probably get conquered by the Houthis or some random tribe. Someone invented an index where they have as much state capacity as China.
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Pretty much every metric tends to be a measure of "how western is this country?". Like that classic chart of pandemic preparedness.https://www.statista.com/chart/20629/ability-to-respond-to-an-epidemic-or-pandemic/ …
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Was thinking of that too.
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These are both incredibly fake metrics and you should feel ashamed for taking them seriously
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It's a DC think tank. The talks of promoting an "open society" leads me to believe it has Soros backing.
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Forget it Rich. It's NiskanenTown.
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