Acknowledgements

I gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. I also thank, without implicating, Philippe Aghion, Richard Freeman, Steph Haggard, Ricardo Hausmann, Murat Iyigun, Sharun Mukand, Jose Antonio Ocampo, Andrei Shleifer, and Arvind Subramanian for comments that substantially improved this pa­per.

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