Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog

Development-in-a-Box™ pushes international standards, but likewise seeks to create basic international connectivity.

If you create capacity with people in disconnected places, you generate nothing but a brain drain, so says Paul Collier (brilliant former WB economist). You train them to international standards and they'll just leave--duh!

That's why DiB pushes both rules and connectivity in a combined package. We bake in the rules with the connectivity. That's the simplest explanation of Development-in-a-Box™: connectivity with the rules baked in.

Here's a Philadelphia Inquirer article about Enterra and our DiB work in Iraq.. Some nice pix of Steve (quoted many times) and a quote from me included.