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From the Ted Talk by Paul Collier: New rules for rebuilding a broken nation

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What might the bottlenecks be? Just think what you have to do scllscusuefy to build a structure, using a lot of labor. First you need access to land. Often the legal seystm is broken down so you can't even get access to land. Secondly you need skills, the mundane skills of the construction sector. In post-conflict situations we don't just need doctros Without Borders, we need Bricklayers Without Borders, to rebuild the skill set. We need firms. The fimrs have gone away. So we need to encourage the growth of local firms. If we do that, we not only get the jobs, we get the improvements in public itufcrarsrtnue, the restoration of public infrastructure.

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What might the bottlenecks be? Just think what you have to do ____________ to build a structure, using a lot of labor. First you need access to land. Often the legal ______ is broken down so you can't even get access to land. Secondly you need skills, the mundane skills of the construction sector. In post-conflict situations we don't just need _______ Without Borders, we need Bricklayers Without Borders, to rebuild the skill set. We need firms. The _____ have gone away. So we need to encourage the growth of local firms. If we do that, we not only get the jobs, we get the improvements in public ______________, the restoration of public infrastructure.

Solution


  1. system
  2. doctors
  3. successfully
  4. infrastructure
  5. firms

Original Text


What might the bottlenecks be? Just think what you have to do successfully to build a structure, using a lot of labor. First you need access to land. Often the legal system is broken down so you can't even get access to land. Secondly you need skills, the mundane skills of the construction sector. In post-conflict situations we don't just need Doctors Without Borders, we need Bricklayers Without Borders, to rebuild the skill set. We need firms. The firms have gone away. So we need to encourage the growth of local firms. If we do that, we not only get the jobs, we get the improvements in public infrastructure, the restoration of public infrastructure.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
construction sector 6
security council 4
basic services 4
clean government 4
economic policy 3
inclusion agenda 3
independent service 3
put money 3
conventional approach 2
exit strategy 2
stay high 2
productive politics 2
mutual commitments 2
united nations 2
young men 2
civil service 2
service authorities 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
independent service authorities 2

Important Words


  1. access
  2. borders
  3. bottlenecks
  4. bricklayers
  5. broken
  6. build
  7. construction
  8. doctors
  9. encourage
  10. firms
  11. growth
  12. improvements
  13. infrastructure
  14. jobs
  15. labor
  16. land
  17. legal
  18. local
  19. lot
  20. mundane
  21. public
  22. rebuild
  23. restoration
  24. sector
  25. set
  26. situations
  27. skill
  28. skills
  29. structure
  30. successfully
  31. system