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From the Ted Talk by Dambisa Moyo: Economic growth has stalled. Let's fix it

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I would argue that there are two sides to this challenge. First of all, we can draw on the right-wing policies to see what could be benieaficl for us to think about how we can ipvmore capitalism.

In particular, right-leaning policies have tended to focus on things like conditional transfers, where we pay and reward people for doing the things that we actually think can help enhance economic growth. For example, sndineg children to shcool, parents could earn money for that, or getting their children inoculated or immunized, parents could get paid for doing that.

Now, quite apart from the debate on whether or not we should be paying ppeole to do what we think they should do anyway, the fact of the matter is that pay for performance has actually yielded some psoiitve results in places like Mexico, in Brazil and also in pilot pagrorms in New York.

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I would argue that there are two sides to this challenge. First of all, we can draw on the right-wing policies to see what could be __________ for us to think about how we can _______ capitalism.

In particular, right-leaning policies have tended to focus on things like conditional transfers, where we pay and reward people for doing the things that we actually think can help enhance economic growth. For example, _______ children to ______, parents could earn money for that, or getting their children inoculated or immunized, parents could get paid for doing that.

Now, quite apart from the debate on whether or not we should be paying ______ to do what we think they should do anyway, the fact of the matter is that pay for performance has actually yielded some ________ results in places like Mexico, in Brazil and also in pilot ________ in New York.

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  1. positive
  2. school
  3. people
  4. programs
  5. sending
  6. beneficial
  7. improve

Original Text


I would argue that there are two sides to this challenge. First of all, we can draw on the right-wing policies to see what could be beneficial for us to think about how we can improve capitalism.

In particular, right-leaning policies have tended to focus on things like conditional transfers, where we pay and reward people for doing the things that we actually think can help enhance economic growth. For example, sending children to school, parents could earn money for that, or getting their children inoculated or immunized, parents could get paid for doing that.

Now, quite apart from the debate on whether or not we should be paying people to do what we think they should do anyway, the fact of the matter is that pay for performance has actually yielded some positive results in places like Mexico, in Brazil and also in pilot programs in New York.

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