Guyana is short of foreign exchange in the middle of the largest foreign-exchange windfall in its history. Counting where the dollars go will never tell us why. Uses are not sources: the …
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The Courage to Become Unnecessary: A Conversation on Power, Succession and Guyana’s Institutions
Transforming Guyana · Season 4, Episode 1 The Courage to Become Unnecessary: A Conversation on Power, Succession and Guyana’s Institutions Kojo M. Parris and Ruel Johnson on leadership, institutional strength, and what …
“What Happens Next Is Politics”: Gampat and Mahabir Reply to Their Readers
The authors of the 64/80 paradox answer Rory Fraser, Errol Benn and the readers who pressed them on why the failures they measured outlast governments — and argue that an independent audit …
Two Roads, One Finding: A Response to the Human Capital Paradox
Rory Fraser’s study of land tenure, forestry enforcement and the public service reaches the same conclusion as Gampat and Mahabir’s 64/80 paradox by a different road, and asks why the failures they …
The Human Capital Paradox in Guyana: Investing More, Returning Less
Drawing on a book-length comparative study of eighteen countries, Ramesh Gampat and Minakshi Mahabir document what they call the 64/80 paradox: Guyana out-invests 64 per cent of its comparators in health and …
