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Transcript 837: For a Few Dollars More Peter Robinson: Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson. Our show today: what to do about poverty in the third world. Of the six billion people on the planet, only about one billion, mostly in North America, Europe and East Asia possess eighty percent of the globe's resources, which of course means that the remaining five billion must share among themselves only twenty percent of the globe's resources. And despite tens of billions of dollars in economic assistance over the past three decades, many nations in the third world are no better off. If we're so smart, if economists and policymakers have made so much progress in recent decades, why is the developing world still so poor and what, if anything, can international development agencies such as the World Bank do to help? Joining us today, two guests. Douglass North is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a holder of the Nobel Prize in Economics. James Wolfensohn is President of the World Bank. Title: The Best Made Plans... uncommonknowledge.org