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A stack of books.
January 26, 2026 jimnosredna

Reading 2025: Development, depravity, perseverance, and adventure

A chart showing how countries improved or worsened the implementation of laws over time. Several countries which advanced to high-income status quickly are show to have made more progress in improving the implementation of laws.
July 19, 2025January 26, 2026 jimnosredna

Understanding Viet Nam’s institutional landscape for its 2045 ambitions

A stack of books. Titles include: A River Runs Through It; Speaking Out in Vietnam; In Cold Blood; Institutions, , Institutional Change and Economic Performance; The Secret of Our Success.
June 20, 2025June 21, 2025 jimnosredna

Reading 2024: Institutions, Viet Nam, Capote, and others

January 5, 2019January 6, 2019 jimnosredna

Zooming in on Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s, “Black Market” of the 1990s: High Resolution Panoramas

September 9, 2018September 16, 2018 jimnosredna

The Evening Sun, July 11, 1968

October 24, 2016October 21, 2019 jimnosredna

20 years ago: “And let’s not mince words: we need to deal with the cancer of corruption…”

January 8, 2015October 15, 2018 jimnosredna

(Still) improving the odds of success when the topic is sensitive

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