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Taking care of business
I agree with John Bird that there is a need to “redesign the ways governments work” in order to end poverty [Issue 1565, 22 May]. However, his argument that governments need to be “businesslike” raises a question. Governments should be businesslike in the sense that they should be efficient and practical. But it is important to recognise that many businesses are neither efficient nor practical. In
