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Development could focus on the middle-class / higher education to build sustainable democracies

By Hicbd
Fri Nov 3 2023 11:51 am

"'Often it has been the more educated – university students, [the] middle class – in places like the Philippines or Indonesia that have led revolutions, but those revolutions have then empowered millions more people through education and development,' says Patel, sitting in a small room in the basement of the Commonwealth Club in central London. 'You need to take people who are university students in sub-Saharan Africa and make them more effective.'"

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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/mar/18/ricken-patel-middle-classes-political-change
https://scholar.harvard.edu/shleifer/files/democracy_final_jeg.pdf
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/higher-educations-role-democracy

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International Development / Foreign Aid / NGOs Global Fragile States / Nation Building / Democracy Democracy Universities / College Political Science Wars / Conflict / Military Strategy Government Corruption / Oversight / Ethics Higher Education Global Education U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) World Bank Developing Countries

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