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Nationcraft

Analyzing a nation and the best way to improve it via Yu-kai Chou's Nationcraft Framework.

Nationcraft·38 min

The Permanent Siege Trap: why the discipline that won Eritrea's independence now empties the nation, and which reform…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·34 min

Angola recovered over $5bn and opened 715 prosecutions. Its governance transparency score did not move. An 18-variable Nationcraft…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·37 min

Bahrain, Botswana and Mauritius each cover a deficit with something they do not control. Three small states read…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·40 min

Kuwait opened its Future Generations Fund to state borrowing 28 months after suspending the parliament that guarded it.…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·33 min

The Escrowed Recovery Trap: Ukraine's $524B rebuild is gated on a peace that may dissolve the wartime cohesion…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·29 min

The Branch-Plant Trap: Canada's Nationcraft profile is elite on paper, and architected as an appendage to one customer…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·31 min

Morocco votes Sept 23 while stadiums rise at decree speed and hospitals crawl at party speed. The Two-Speed…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·31 min

The Consensus Machine Trap: Germany's stability machinery now blocks the renewal its 9/10 economy needs, and the September…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·28 min

Zimbabwe just abolished direct presidential elections while posting its best economy in a decade. The Restored-Legacy Trap explains…

Yu-kai Chou