Supply side economics has taken more people out of poverty than any kind of ISI or other internally focused development programmes. (I’ll also note I’m a far left person who believes there are many flaws with the global economic system but the raw facts don’t lie. Also, I’ve been poor and destitute unlike the majority of HN posters and understand how desultory and ineffective the majority of social programmes truly are - and this isn’t just an American perspective, as I’ve lived in nearly a dozen countries.)
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