it, the prospect of major country level shocks over which the country itself has no control. By the
“normal” development discourse I mean the usual things—education, health, infrastructure, public
sector management … of crises will kick in some time during the next few years, say, but when exactly it will happen is
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Presentation to the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network, April, 28,
2009. For …