Norman Macrae : Books & Surveys at The Economist - 260SmithWatt 70Neumann 50F.Abed , AI20s.com Fei-Fei Li, Zbee2024-03-28T14:14:08Zhttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/norman-macrae-books-surveys?commentId=6339278%3AComment%3A16067&feed=yes&xn_auth=noIts almost impossible to find…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2022-03-01:6339278:Comment:1379052022-03-01T16:22:39.539Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>Its almost impossible to find my father's reports of nations 1947 to 1988 in The Economist any more because they only digitalised after he left- but anyway here's how they currently update their national views</p>
<p>Europe <a href="https://www.economist.com/taxonomy/term/122" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Russia </a> ::<a href="https://www.economist.com/taxonomy/term/123" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> Ukraine</a>::…</p>
<p>Its almost impossible to find my father's reports of nations 1947 to 1988 in The Economist any more because they only digitalised after he left- but anyway here's how they currently update their national views</p>
<p>Europe <a href="https://www.economist.com/taxonomy/term/122" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russia </a> ::<a href="https://www.economist.com/taxonomy/term/123" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Ukraine</a>:: <a href="https://www.economist.com/taxonomy/term/125" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Netherlands</a> ::: ::::<a href="https://www.economist.com/taxonomy/term/124" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ireland</a></p>
<p>America - <a href="https://www.economist.com/taxonomy/term/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Argentina</a>:: ::::</p> only we the peoples xxx erwo…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2021-05-29:6339278:Comment:1334972021-05-29T14:49:08.414Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p><span> only we the peoples xxx erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0013.pdf -beyond top-down gov-: lets communally end virus, save climate, xxx erworld.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wise_0011.pdf- value livelihood edu of every next girl born through community blossoming everywhere-</span><br/> <br/></p>
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<div class="IsZvec"><span class="aCOpRe"><span class="f">Feb 26, 1984 —<span> </span></span><span><em>Norman Macrae</em> is deputy editor of <em>The Economist</em> of London</span></span></div>
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<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Studies in the Economics of Development. By P. T. Bauer. 184 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. $15.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">IN Hungary in the 1920's, when Thomas Balogh and Nicholas Kaldor were learning socialist</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">economics at the high school attached to Budapest University, the slightly younger Peter Bauer, born in 1915, was imbibing Adam Smithism in the Skola Pia down the road. All three Budapest youths grew up to become professors of economics at Britain's senior universities, and all are now members of the House of Lords.</p>
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<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Lord Balogh and Lord Kaldor were principal tax and microeconomic advisers to Harold Wilson's first Labor Administration in 1964-70; the City of London wailed it was being ravaged by Magyar hordes. Lord Bauer was the first professor of economics to be ennobled by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who does not usually like professors of economics. ''Reality and Rhetoric'' is another (rather untidily updated) collection of his essays explaining how over-government stops poor countries from growing richer and why the only successful developers are the laissez-faire Singapores.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Most of his views are very unpopular with professional diplomats. He will not toady to third world governments, because his sympathy lies with their peoples, subjected to what he calls their despotism and kleptocracy. He regrets that international aid is maintaining African, Asian and Central American governments whose economic policies reduce their peoples' living standards by far more than international aid could ever raise them.</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Thus, he says, the significant figures for Tanzania, the African country that has received the most aid, are not that its foreign aid in 1980 equaled 18.1 percent of its misreported national income but that it equaled 106.8 percent of its internal tax receipts and 152.8 percent of its export earnings. The money trickling to the people was insignificant compared with the extra tax revenues and foreign exchange put at the direct disposal of the authoritarian Tanzanian Government. During the 1970's, he says, that Government used its aid to collectivize agriculture and suppress private trading activity, with devastating effects on food and other production and distribution, helping to spread famine and uproot people from their homes. Yet President Julius Nyerere is one of the more saintly third world leaders, because he does not use his aid money to finance the heroin trade and does not give to his relations the lucrative import licenses his absurd internal economic policies require.</p>
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<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">A similar cleanish record, except on political nepotism, is generally accorded the more democratic rulers of India, which is Asia's largest aid receiver. (In 1980, its aid equaled 1.6 percent of recorded gross national product, 16.8 percent of tax revenues and 31.2 percent of export receipts.) Yet during the 1970's, Lord Bauer points out, India used its aid to wage a war against Pakistan (another large aid recipient), build a nuclear bomb, forcibly sterilize many poor people and pursue extremely wasteful policies of import substitution and other economic controls. It also severely restricted inflows of capital, the shortage of which is the only economically logical ground for aid.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Lord Bauer does not overblame the politicans, who were serving their own self-interest in the normal way, but reserves his fury for professors of economics who have not looked at the now ample statistics of collectivism's perverse effects. His own studies show that ''commodity stabilization schemes'' do not stabilize prices but widen fluctuations in output (and probably in producers' total incomes). He also concludes that marketing boards and state cooperatives reduce the incomes of poor farmers and that computerized state planning in poor countries always has ludicrous results. Kleptocracies are the worst places in which to replace market signals by political decisions that provide more power, influence, jobs and money for civil servants, politicians and their wives. He says the culture of most of Asia and Africa has always been more authoritarian than the West's - thus less conducive to self-reliance, sustained curiosity and experiment - so it is wicked for Western economists to help extend the period of overgovernment that reinforces this disadvantage.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Free marketers who are more optimistic about third world development, including myself, believe that institutional aid should be continued through the International Monetary Fund and other lending agencies but be geared to the requirement that recipients end economic nonsenses. There is obviously no kindness in pumping more government-to- government aid money into countries whose main problems are inflation (stemming from excessive money supply), autocracy and overgovernment. But there does seem a case for not allowing balance-of-payments restraints to dictate excess restrictions in poor countries where a new entrepreneurism is struggling to breathe free. Lord Bauer opposes this view because he thinks that entrepreneurs who use cheap labor and whose activities appear to be profitable will generally get all of the rather little capital they need anyway.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Those who dispute this part of Lord Bauer's generally convincing judgment should read this book, but they may be deterred because the distinquished economist gets cross in such detail with discredited leftist academics of the 1950's and '60s. The eagle should not hunt flies.B</p>
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<p><span class="font-size-1">1982's <a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/intrapreneur-surveys" target="_self">We're All Intrapreneurial Now</a>;</span> <a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/why-not-silicon-valley-for-all-1982" target="_self">why not silicon valley for all</a></p>
<p><a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/2-billion-people" target="_self">7 May 1977 survey of Two Billion People- Asia</a></p>
<p><span>What </span><a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/asia-pacific-youth-collaboration-century-macrae-economist-survey" target="_self">will human race produce in 20th C Q4</a><span>? - Jan 1975</span></p>
<p><a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/er-curriculum-1984-timelines-for-net-generation-of-2010s-to-be" target="_self">(1984 book on net generation 3 billion job creation)</a><span> ...</span></p>
<p><span>1991 Survey looking forward to </span><a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/xn/detail/6339278:Comment:18098" target="_self">The End of Big Banks contoling Politicians</a></p>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="partners_of_7_billion_peoples.27_S-goals-Goal_17">partnering <a class="external text" href="https://medium.com/@johncaswell/the-great-acceleration-32e1c8d2f980#.fj0gfez5p" rel="nofollow">7 billion peoples' S-goals</a>-Goal <span class="font-size-4"><a href="https://share.coursera.org/wiki/index.php/Valuingyouth" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>17</u></a></span></span></h3>
<p><a class="external text" href="http://worldclassbrands.tv/" rel="nofollow">WorldClassBrandsNetwork</a> founded 1988 when <a class="external text" href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/norman-macrae-books-surveys" rel="nofollow">norman macrae retired from 40 years as The Economist's end poverty sub-editor</a> -our network linksin youth and journalists concerned with mediating better futures for next generations. We publish the transformational genre of how world's most resourced organisations partner intergenerational sustainability ; explore conscious purposes of market sectors triangularised by global youth. In our league tables:</p>
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<li>global youth trust most critical to sustainability - <a class="external text" href="https://medium.com/@amy1992726/if-you-peacefully-read-over-this-article-donald-trump-will-still-run-for-president-5f9a5e0593bb#.fux5gp639" rel="nofollow">chinese women</a> for 3 reasons: numerically quarter of a billion of them; increase in their livelihoods potential out of every community is huge economically and socially; sustainability goals and <a class="external text" href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/norman-macrae-books-surveys" rel="nofollow">global youth trust</a> must be the fashion of our era -and its always <a class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?num=40&site=&source=hp&q=fashion4development+fazle&oq=fashion4development+fazle&gs_l=hp.12...5217.21165.0.25786.36.29.4.3.3.0.190.2556.22j6.28.0....0...1c.1.64.hp..1.29.2126.0..0j0i131j0i3j0i10j0i13j0i13i30j0i8i13i30j0i22i30.1MG7_Pd9nwQ" rel="nofollow">empowerment of young women</a> who move fashions and <a class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUGSYDKUxU" rel="nofollow">hope</a></li>
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<p><br></br> <font color="red" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><font size="2">In 1984 4th and 5th gens of </font><a href="http://normanmacrae.net/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><font color="red">our Diaspora Scottish family</font></a><font size="2"> wanted to timeline little sisters maps mobilising sustainability worldwide altogether opposite to Orwell's Big Brother- download chapters from </font></font><font color="red" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><font size="2">The…</font></font></p>
<p><br/> <font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="red"><font size="2">In 1984 4th and 5th gens of </font><a href="http://normanmacrae.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><font color="red">our Diaspora Scottish family</font></a><font size="2"> wanted to timeline little sisters maps mobilising sustainability worldwide altogether opposite to Orwell's Big Brother- download chapters from </font></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="red"><font size="2">The 2025 Report by chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk and The Economist's 20th C end poverty sub-editor <a href="http://twitter.com/myunuslab" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><font color="red">Norman Macrae</font></a></font></font><br/><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3783417872?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3783417872?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
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<p>-what are best ways of learning about such ideas as:</p>
<p><span>1972: Over the next 2 generations two thirds of humanity should be raised from intolerable indigence to something better than that which a third of us already enjoy. The remaining aim of the political economist should be to support whatever system she thinks could cause this to happen more quickly or more smoothly</span> </p>
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<p><span>1972: Over the next 2 generations two thirds of humanity should be raised from intolerable indigence to something better than that which a third of us already enjoy. The remaining aim of the political economist should be to support whatever system she thinks could cause this to happen more quickly or more smoothly</span> </p>
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<tbody><tr><td><p><span>By 1984 Norman Macrae challenged at least 5 sectors to get 8 times more economical in order to sustain the Net generation. Take health services for example</span> </p>
<p><b><i>8 Times More Economical</i></b> may sound like hopeful optimism to some, but more detailed scrutiny of what Norman wrote shows that there were often two-cubed value multipliers. Take health for example in 1984: </p>
<p><b>Better care at one eighth the cost?</b><br/> Cover Below<br/> <a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/why-dont-we-search-for-10-times-more-economical-healthcare"><b>The Economist. Saturday, 28 April 1984.<br/> Pages 23,24. Vol 291, issue 7339.</b></a></p>
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<p>3) 1948 diaries reveal the right old muddle around which the NHS started- with hindsight could not most economists map a design that compounded in a 2 times more economical way?</p>
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<p>2) the coming mobilisation of information technology could surely double efficiency by sharing life-saving information and connecting remote experts with local emergency interventions</p>
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<p>1) there should be courageously mediated choices (however politically incorrect) on what a public system should not cover - if for example father's statistic that over half of national health costs are connected to keeping of people alive for an extra year, then such national mis-spending is at odds with every parent who strives to see their children have a better livelihood opportunity in the future than the past (ultimately the only way a place can wholly develop)</p> brochure.docx .help us edit…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2019-10-06:6339278:Comment:292282019-10-06T14:29:43.828Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
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<p><span>from new york- boris announced doubllng uk climate aid- uk supreme court has started uk election- 30% chance impeachment of trump starts in 24 hours- ps tell me email of german cp</span></p>
<p><span>from new york- boris announced doubllng uk climate aid- uk supreme court has started uk election- 30% chance impeachment of trump starts in 24 hours- ps tell me email of german cp</span></p> britain needs to try hardest…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2019-07-02:6339278:Comment:288272019-07-02T11:52:41.564Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>britain needs to try hardest on mapping win-win trade routes now that we start with a clean sheet fromthe eu albatross- 3 cheers for odi </p>
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<h2>What is the Belt and Road?</h2>
<p>It’s a massive infrastructure and connectivity initiative of the Chinese government, loosely based on two main routes: the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. In Chinese the initiative is called 一带一路 (literally, ‘one belt one road’). The English name<span> </span><a href="https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_chinas_belt_and_road_new_name_same_doubts">has changed</a><span> </span>from One Belt One Road (or OBOR) to the now widely accepted BRI.</p>
<p>The name is not the only moving piece. The BRI is fluid – an ever-evolving concept that has changed considerably since it was first announced in 2013. While large investment projects characterised the initial phase, it now focuses on<span> </span><a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201808/28/WS5b84994fa310add14f388114.html">high-quality development</a>, mirroring China’s growth path<span> </span><a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/31677a4d32597a6333566d54/share_p.html">from ‘high-speed’ to ‘high-quality’</a>.</p>
<p>The very nature of BRI has also evolved as well. It started as a China-driven plan to connect the Eurasian region, but the Chinese government now aims to make this a ‘platform’, open for all countries to join, and for all interested investors to collaborate.</p>
<p>One challenge that many non-Chinese observers (especially in Europe and in the US) struggle with is the ‘vagueness’ of the BRI concept. The BRI brand is broad enough to encompass many projects and ideas. While this makes the BRI flexible to evolve, it also makes it difficult to pinpoint its exact scope. What makes an infrastructure project a BRI project? And does it matter to be able to define it? To avoid potential misuse of the term, the Chinese government is moving toward developing a BRI project database (more on this below).</p>
<h2>Top resources on the Belt and Road Initiative</h2>
<p>The starting point for anyone interested in the BRI should be the official<span> </span><a href="https://www.yidaiyilu.gov.cn/">Belt and Road portal</a>. The portal provides lots of useful documents, including a<span> </span><a href="https://www.yidaiyilu.gov.cn/info/iList.jsp?cat_id=10037">list of countries</a><span> </span>that have signed cooperation documents with China, and the<span> </span><a href="https://eng.yidaiyilu.gov.cn/zchj/qwfb/13757.htm">‘Guiding principles on financing the development of the Belt and Road’</a>, signed by almost 30 countries in 2017 to promote more sustainable financing of BRI projects.</p>
<p>The<span> </span><a href="http://en.ndrc.gov.cn/newsrelease/201503/t20150330_669367.html">‘Vision and Actions on Jointly Building Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road’</a><span> </span>is the official blueprint for the BRI. It highlights the five main areas of the initiative: policy cooperation, infrastructure connectivity, trade connectivity, financial cooperation and people-to-people exchanges.</p>
<p>While currently there is no official BRI project database, the Chinese government is<span> </span><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/china-moves-to-define-belt-and-road-projects-for-first-time">developing one</a>. However, there are several unofficial databases with different focus areas. The<span> </span><a href="https://www.merics.org/en/bri-tracker/methodology">Merics BRI tracker</a><span> </span>looks specifically at BRI projects.<span> </span><a href="https://www.aiddata.org/datasets">Aiddata</a><span> </span>collects and distributes data on Chinese official finance. The<span> </span><a href="https://reconnectingasia.csis.org/database/">Reconnecting Asia database</a><span> </span>lists major infrastructure investment in Asia. The<span> </span><a href="http://www.aei.org/china-global-investment-tracker/">American Enterprise Institute database</a><span> </span>includes announced Chinese outward investment.</p>
<h2>The domestic side of the Belt and Road Initiative</h2>
<p>The BRI is about China ‘<a href="https://policycn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-Chinas-going-global-strategy.pdf">going out’</a><span> </span>(pdf), and as such it responds first and foremost to China’s domestic needs. A few resources published last year make this case convincingly.</p>
<p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/app5.265">This article</a><span> </span>looks at how the BRI helps China deal with a number of domestic challenges, including structural changes in the economy, shifting demographics, financial risk management, and poverty alleviation.</p>
<p>Other resources look at how the BRI is managed domestically. <a href="http://theasiadialogue.com/2017/06/07/the-domestic-drive-behind-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative/">This article</a><span> </span>offers interesting insights around the domestic policy processes governing the initiative. Very interesting and quite critical of many aspects of the BRI is<span> </span><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2018.1511391">this article</a>, which looks not only at how the BRI is managed and directed domestically, but also how it serves domestic policy needs, including mobilising provinces, and how dissent and disagreement around policy choices are controlled.</p>
<h2>Criticism at home, criticism abroad</h2>
<p>The Belt and Road is not uncontroversial. Most of the criticism aired outside of China refers to the financial sustainability of many Belt and Road projects, discussed in an<span> </span><a href="https://www.odi.org/comment/10700-china-and-international-development-six-things-read-october">earlier round-up</a>. I also flag the paper<span> </span><a href="https://www.cgdev.org/publication/examining-debt-implications-belt-and-road-initiative-a-policy-perspective">‘Examining the debt implications of the Belt and Road Initiative from a policy perspective’</a>, and this recent<span> </span><a href="https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/04/04/misdiagnosing-the-chinese-infrastructure-push/">piece</a><span> </span>by Deborah Brautigam challenging the simple ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ narrative and assessing some of the financial challenges around the BRI.</p>
<p>Criticism around BRI is also raised domestically. Some commentators point to the<span> </span><a href="https://thediplomat.com/2018/09/china-debates-the-belt-and-road/">lack of planning, or inappropriate framing</a><span> </span>of the initiative. Others<span> </span><a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2018-10-24/why-democracies-are-turning-against-belt-and-road">criticise</a><span> </span>the fact that the Chinese government is spending (or lending) abroad, when a lot of people still live below the poverty line. This narrative may sound<span> </span><a href="http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/the07odagnitarget-ahistory.htm">all too familiar</a><span> </span>to audiences from OECD countries.</p>
<h2>The Belt and Road Initiative’s impact on partner countries</h2>
<p>I also find it very interesting to read about the impact of BRI in specific countries. While some countries (such as Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Pakistan) have received extensive media attention, there are less obvious but equally interesting stories.</p>
<p>One blog, for example, highlights the emerging impact of the BRI on<span> </span><a href="https://theconversation.com/chinas-silk-road-urbanism-is-changing-cities-from-london-to-kampala-can-locals-keep-control-114125">urban development in Uganda</a>. A piece on<span> </span><a href="https://jamestown.org/program/china-myanmar-economic-corridor-ambitions-meet-hard-reality/">Myanmar</a><span> </span>discusses how the government is trying to manage BRI projects, scrutinising not only their price tag, but also how they fit into Myanmar’s development strategy. Another report looks at the<span> </span><a href="https://www.ebrd.com/news/2017/what-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-means-for-the-western-balkans.html">‘Balkan Silk Road’</a><span> </span>running through Western Europe.</p>
<p>I have also been revisiting a lot of older resources to better understand the implications of the BRI for development. UNDP China has<span> </span><a href="http://www.cn.undp.org/content/china/en/home/belt-and-road.html">a lot of content</a><span> </span>about BRI and development, which is worth exploring – see, for example, this report on<span> </span><a href="http://www.cn.undp.org/content/china/en/home/library/south-south-cooperation/the-economic-development-along-the-belt-and-road-2017.html">economic development along the Belt and Road</a>.</p>
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<p>Over 40 years ago dad,The Economist's Norman Macrae, started debating how value will multiply between peoples in an era characterised by <a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22norman%20macrae%22%20%22death%20of%20distance%22&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=%22norman%20macrae%22%20%22death%20of%20distance%22&sc=0-35&sk=&cvid=C314DB9662C845B8A62C0FB813952B0B" rel="noopener" target="_blank">death of distance…</a></p>
<p>13 tricky borders to sustainability- 7 no trumps</p>
<p>Over 40 years ago dad,The Economist's Norman Macrae, started debating how value will multiply between peoples in an era characterised by <a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22norman%20macrae%22%20%22death%20of%20distance%22&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=%22norman%20macrae%22%20%22death%20of%20distance%22&sc=0-35&sk=&cvid=C314DB9662C845B8A62C0FB813952B0B" target="_blank" rel="noopener">death of distance</a> (satellite communications once installed don't make distance a primary cost of communicating the way it used to be)</p>
<p>This is one reason why smart valuation of borders interests me- not just neighbouring nations with land borders though those special opportunities- but if you face a coastal belt your borders may be very fluid and in worldwide space there are no borders – so welcome to our quiz and guided tour in 13 borders. Having said that China has about 15 land birders while the USA has tow. It seems interesting to compare sustainability intelligence of these two biggest marketing spaces. Do they understand what human needs their geographies could be valuable exemplars of assuming you agree : <a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/xn/detail/6339278:Comment:27004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">these are the most exciting times to be alive</a>. Because all of us are determining whether our species thrives or goes the way of the dodo</p>
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<tbody><tr><td width="270"><p>0-2 China and half the world people (s asia)</p>
<p>Women greatest innovations ever seen</p>
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<td width="204"><p>0-1 China and far east leaders (half of shipped world trade)</p>
<p>Open tech greatest innovations</p>
<p>Ir4 ai age of navigating 100-4000 benchmark here as indeed benchmark deming -the hemisphere of super electronic and civile engineers -cf mit media lab archoitects bridge to new media archotects</p>
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<td width="186"><p>0-2.1 China and Rest of south east</p>
<p>Diversity’s cultural fusion -</p>
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<td width="228"><p>0-3 China and half Eurasia’s Land</p>
<p>Peoples of riussia have had a tough history -mainly with vast lads being invaded by others- how can we all elearn from this – sco brics</p>
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<tr><td width="270"><p>6-10 America and its southern border</p>
<p>With only 2 boders -the united amerucans really need a longer term accommodation with their latin ftoend-s and by the way lating wil sonn be the main language</p>
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<td width="204"><p>What if the only borders were 4 languages every child needed to be friends with – chiense English mother tongue coding – pity there is no L4 summit</p>
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<td width="186"><p>12 What if the UNM3 behaved as if borders were sustainability’s greatest value in ending risks to mother earth</p>
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<td width="228"><p>11 Arctic Circle – quite like;ly tehse countries wil detrain whether mother earh</p>
<p> Can be saved from meltdown</p>
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<tr><td width="270"><p>Borders of South and central America</p>
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<td width="204"><p>9 Borders of africa</p>
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<td width="186"><p>5-4 EU and its landed neighbors</p>
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<td width="228"><p>8Med sea</p>
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<tr><td colspan="4" width="888"><p>T7 he old roads crossroads – mid east</p>
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<p>Numbers above refer to our usual BRI.school mapping</p>
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