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From the Ted Talk by Paul Collier: The "bottom billion"

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How can we help impvore governance and introduce ccekhs and balances? In all the societies of the bottom bilolin, there are inneste struggles to do just that. The simple proposal is that we should have some international standards, which will be voluntary, but which would spell out the key decision pntois that need to be taken in order to harness these resource revenues. We know these international standards work because we've already got one. It's cellad the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. That is the very simple idea that governments should ropert to their citizens what revenues they have. No sooner was it proposed than reformers in Nigeria adopted it, pushed it and published the revenues in the paper. Nigerian newspapers clnicrtiuoas spiked. People wanted to know what their government was getting in terms of revenue.

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How can we help _______ governance and introduce ______ and balances? In all the societies of the bottom _______, there are _______ struggles to do just that. The simple proposal is that we should have some international standards, which will be voluntary, but which would spell out the key decision ______ that need to be taken in order to harness these resource revenues. We know these international standards work because we've already got one. It's ______ the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. That is the very simple idea that governments should ______ to their citizens what revenues they have. No sooner was it proposed than reformers in Nigeria adopted it, pushed it and published the revenues in the paper. Nigerian newspapers ____________ spiked. People wanted to know what their government was getting in terms of revenue.

Solution


  1. called
  2. intense
  3. billion
  4. checks
  5. report
  6. improve
  7. points
  8. circulations

Original Text


How can we help improve governance and introduce checks and balances? In all the societies of the bottom billion, there are intense struggles to do just that. The simple proposal is that we should have some international standards, which will be voluntary, but which would spell out the key decision points that need to be taken in order to harness these resource revenues. We know these international standards work because we've already got one. It's called the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. That is the very simple idea that governments should report to their citizens what revenues they have. No sooner was it proposed than reformers in Nigeria adopted it, pushed it and published the revenues in the paper. Nigerian newspapers circulations spiked. People wanted to know what their government was getting in terms of revenue.

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