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  "title": "Dani Rodrik on Rethinking Development",
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  "summary": "He's an award-winning audio producer and journalist who's covered armed conflicts, social unrest, and natural disasters from all corners of the world.",
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- Manufacturing and industrialization have long been the development strategy for many countries in Asia.\n- That strategy \"has spurred growth and lifted millions out of poverty.\"\n- Despite industrialization, most jobs remain in the untraded services sector.\n- Making employment in traditional, domestic services like food, hospitality, and gig work more productive will lead to a more inclusive growth model.\n- Dani Rodrik is Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School and co-directs its Reimagining the Economy program."
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      "heading": "Policy implications and recommendations",
      "content": "- Prioritize productivity improvements in untraded, traditional domestic services (examples cited: food, hospitality, gig work) to achieve more inclusive growth.\n- Rebalance development strategies to complement industrialization with targeted measures that raise productivity in service sectors where most employment occurs."
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      "heading": "Context and production",
      "content": "- Episode title: Dani Rodrik on Rethinking Development.\n- Publication/series: F&D Magazine / Development.\n- Date: September 10, 2026.\n- Host/producer: Bruce Edwards, International Monetary Fund; he produces the IMF podcast program and is an award-winning audio producer and journalist.\n- Dani Rodrik is identified as the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School."
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    "Prioritize productivity improvements in untraded, traditional domestic services (examples cited: food, hospitality, gig work) to achieve more inclusive growth.",
    "Rebalance development strategies to complement industrialization with targeted measures that raise productivity in service sectors where most employment occurs.",
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