About

Andries Kerpestein is an economist on a mission to alleviate poverty. This has drawn his focus to improving institutions, because poor institutions are the main reason why many countries have not nearly reached their economic potential. Institutions have the power to make or break societies and set them on a course for prosperity or poverty. To root out poverty, institutions must be significantly improved in a large number of countries. Institutional innovation is one of the most important and underappreciated kinds of innovation today, and there is much work to be done.

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