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" Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives. "
Words
Other
Own
" Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. "
Problems
Curiosity
Pursue
" It became clear I wanted to be a development economist. I mean, I said I wanted to work on the economics of poor countries. And I'd actually say that I don't think that was so much about narrowing the gap as about increasing their incomes, which means economic growth, which is really my prime interest. "
Say
Think
Economics
" I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percent; that's to say, add on other taxes like VAT to the income tax. "
Think
Like
Over
" It's not going to be true that every country has the same technological possibilities, but there is no reason why it might not be more or less true. Broadly, that the idea that the same technologies should be available everywhere seems to me very plausible. "
Possibilities
Me
True
" The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things. "
Good
New
World
" When things begin to go bad, the perception of people makes it worse. "
Perception
Bad
Go
" You know there's problems - you can see all the poverty and so on - but it's quite another matter to know what you can do about it. "
Poverty
Know
Problems
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