On the first, the lesson from Europe and America is to harness the private sector.
The best hope of achieving that is to harness the private sector, and the most promising area is pension reform.
Until municipalities can harness the private sector better, they are likely to remain short on skills and their residents short on toilets.
He hopes his book will remind the new generation that the right strategy is the "politics of and", which means finding new ways to harness the private sector to deliver public services – and cut the deficit.
But not even Mr Blair will win this argument without thinking through the missing details on just how to harness the private sector to Britain's public services.In the Conservative Party, matters are complicated by the need to identify a new leader as well as a new bundle of political ideas.
Are there creative institutional structures that could more fully harness the private sector while helping financially troubled national utility companies, for example, by breaking off the most rural, unprofitable markets from utility company jurisdiction and administering them through a subsidized platform?
The challenge for policymakers is to harness the financial sector's vast resources to increase the informativeness of market prices.
This is where the greatest potential sits to harness the private sector as reveled by a recent meeting convened by the Sun Business Network and the Tanzanian government which attracted interest from seventy local companies.
And that's why I've asked the president to expand targeted tax credits to harness the private sector and create more jobs in cities hit hardest by the economic downturn.
In 2013, when Mercy Corps recruited me, I was working at the equivalent of TechCrunch in the Arab world, seeking a way to harness the tech sector, create a positive social impact, and make use of my languages.
