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From the Ted Talk by Ashraf Ghani: How to rebuild a broken state

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Second is, you're problem solvers, but you're not engaging your global responsibility. You've stayed away from the problems of corruption. You only want clean entevmionnrs in which to function. But if you don't think through the problems of corruption, who will? You stay away from design for dnveoepmlet. You're great designers, but your designs are selfish. It's for your own immediate use. The world in which I operate operates with dniesgs regarding roads, or dams, or provision of electricity that have not been risvetied in 60 years. This is not right. It rquieers thinking.

Open Cloze

Second is, you're problem solvers, but you're not engaging your global responsibility. You've stayed away from the problems of corruption. You only want clean ____________ in which to function. But if you don't think through the problems of corruption, who will? You stay away from design for ___________. You're great designers, but your designs are selfish. It's for your own immediate use. The world in which I operate operates with _______ regarding roads, or dams, or provision of electricity that have not been _________ in 60 years. This is not right. It ________ thinking.

Solution

  1. revisited
  2. requires
  3. environments
  4. designs
  5. development

Original Text

Second is, you're problem solvers, but you're not engaging your global responsibility. You've stayed away from the problems of corruption. You only want clean environments in which to function. But if you don't think through the problems of corruption, who will? You stay away from design for development. You're great designers, but your designs are selfish. It's for your own immediate use. The world in which I operate operates with designs regarding roads, or dams, or provision of electricity that have not been revisited in 60 years. This is not right. It requires thinking.

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