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My research with Maggie McMillan of Tufts University and the International Food Policy Research Institute shows that countries with a strong comparative advantage in natural resources are particularly prone to fall into the trap of growth-reducing structural change.

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Now I'm not going to belabor this point, but studies do show that, as investors, women are much less prone to taking reckless risks than men, precisely because, as we've already heard, women tend not to suffer from overconfidence in the same way that men do.

Now "kindness" might sound like a very mild word, and it's prone to its own abundant cliche.

And small groups are more prone to accidents and bad luck.

After all, they are the most perishable of their kind, prone to injury and very slow to heal due to our health care system.

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