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From the Ted Talk by Ashraf Ghani: How to rebuild a broken state

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Second, instead of debating endlessly about what is the srtcruute of the state, why don't we sfpliimy and say, what are a series of fnucontis that the state in the 21st century must perform? Clare Lockhart and I are writing a book on this; we hope to share that much widely with -- and third is that we could actually construct an index to measure comparatively how well these functions that we would agree on are being performed in different places.

So what are these functions? We propose 10. And it's laietgitme monoploy of means of violence, administrative crotonl, mneeanmgat of public finances, investment in human capital, provision of citizenship rights, provision of infrastructure, management of the tangible and intangible assets of the state through regulation, ciareotn of the market, international agreements, including public borrowing, and then, most itntralmopy, rule of law.

Open Cloze


Second, instead of debating endlessly about what is the _________ of the state, why don't we ________ and say, what are a series of _________ that the state in the 21st century must perform? Clare Lockhart and I are writing a book on this; we hope to share that much widely with -- and third is that we could actually construct an index to measure comparatively how well these functions that we would agree on are being performed in different places.

So what are these functions? We propose 10. And it's __________ ________ of means of violence, administrative _______, __________ of public finances, investment in human capital, provision of citizenship rights, provision of infrastructure, management of the tangible and intangible assets of the state through regulation, ________ of the market, international agreements, including public borrowing, and then, most ___________, rule of law.

Solution


  1. functions
  2. importantly
  3. management
  4. structure
  5. control
  6. legitimate
  7. monopoly
  8. creation
  9. simplify

Original Text


Second, instead of debating endlessly about what is the structure of the state, why don't we simplify and say, what are a series of functions that the state in the 21st century must perform? Clare Lockhart and I are writing a book on this; we hope to share that much widely with -- and third is that we could actually construct an index to measure comparatively how well these functions that we would agree on are being performed in different places.

So what are these functions? We propose 10. And it's legitimate monopoly of means of violence, administrative control, management of public finances, investment in human capital, provision of citizenship rights, provision of infrastructure, management of the tangible and intangible assets of the state through regulation, creation of the market, international agreements, including public borrowing, and then, most importantly, rule of law.

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