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Rohan Sandhu

@rohansandhu.bsky.social
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Co-founder of the Harvard Reimagining the Economy Project | state capacity, economic development, industrial policy, workforce/education | + TV, films, books

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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/2026
NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable
Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/2026
8. @rohansandhu.bsky.social argues for going local. There's a hidden developmental state in state and city government, and by spreading resources and capacity to them, we guard against seesawing at the federal level. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Use and Expand Subfederal Power
How place-based institutions and regional economic strategies can strengthen U.S. industrial policy beyond Washington and build lasting economic opportunity.
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Tomorrow’s Affairs @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
By enforcing and rewarding compliance, India’s education system produces elites with little patience for questions about, let alone opposition to, the status quo - By @rohansandhu.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/rewarding-co... #India #education @projectsyndicate.bsky.social
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Rewarding compliance – What’s wrong with India’s education system?
By enforcing and rewarding compliance, India’s education system produces elites with little patience for questions about, let alone opposition to, the status quo
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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The resignation of India's education minister amounts to a powerful symbolic victory for the student protest movement, writes @rohansandhu.bsky.social. But the implications of the protests extend much further. bit.ly/4yKkaTf
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India’s Exam Worriers Become Democracy Warriors
Rohan Sandhu says that the recent student protests reflect the collapse of a long-standing socioeconomic compact.
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We’re looking for a Research Communications Manager for the Reimagining the Economy project at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social! Ideal for someone who’s passionate about the diffusion of knowledge across researchers & practitioners. Apply here: careers.harvard.edu/job/research... @drodrik.bsky.social
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Research Communications Manager, Reimagining the Economy Project
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Some takeaways from the launch of our new Global Economic Transformation Initiative at the Reimagining the Economy Project, @harvardkennedy.bsky.social: www.linkedin.com/pulse/launch... @drodrik.bsky.social
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Launching Reimagining the Economy's Global Economic Transformation Initiative
Earlier this week, we launched Reimagining the Economy Project, Harvard Kennedy School's new Global Economic Transformation Initiative, as a part of Harvard Center for International Development's annu...
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We want to hear your questions! If you teach economics now or you are a grad student who will someday, what would you like to know about teaching the fundamentals of economic inequality? Later this week, we'll ask Professor Can Erbil these questions and share his answers with everyone.
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Folks in the Boston area: I’m looking forward to being in conversation with @greenwell.bsky.social this week on *Bad Company* — one of my favorite recent books and exceptional narrative non-fiction. Register: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/priva...
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
New from @drodrik.bsky.social, Gordon Hanson, and myself: "While global cooperation and national resource mobilization will be necessary to address the challenges we now face, it is local action that offers the most promising path forward." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...
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The Global Economic Transformation Will Be Local
Gordon Hanson, Dani Rodrik and Rohan Sandhu observe that the types of challenges that developed and developing economies face are converging.
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Come work with us on the Reimagining the Economy team at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social ⬇️
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
One of the most solipsistic things I do every year is share my favorite books. And this has been a pretty good reading year, with remarkable fiction and non-fiction. Here are some of the books that resonated most and that I’m thinking about as the year ends www.linkedin.com/pulse/books-...
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Books of 2025
One of the most solipsistic things I do every year is share my favorite books. And this has been a pretty good reading year, with remarkable fiction and non-fiction.
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
One of the most solipsistic things I do every year is share my favorite books. And this has been a pretty good reading year, with remarkable fiction and non-fiction. Here are some of the books that resonated most and that I’m thinking about as the year ends www.linkedin.com/pulse/books-...
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Books of 2025
One of the most solipsistic things I do every year is share my favorite books. And this has been a pretty good reading year, with remarkable fiction and non-fiction.
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Excited to share *The Economy in Place* — a new data viz platform tracking local economic conditions and place-based policies U.S. commuting zones, with dashboards, place profiles, a blog, and research bibliography. economyinplace.com
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Check out our new data visualization platform to explore local economic conditions and policies targeting place in the US: "The Economy in Place." economyinplace.com
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The Economy in Place
Interactive, data story
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Before the Booker Prize gets announced today, here’s my ranking of the shortlisted novels: 1. Flesh 2. Audition 3. The Rest of Our Lives 4. Flashlight 5. The Land in Winter 6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (But #6 is probably going to win)
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Official publication day www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shared-pro...
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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate|Hardcover
New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issuesFighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s...
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Currently reading @drodrik.bsky.social’s new book, releasing in a few weeks. Join us for a launch discussion with Dani Rodrik, @chatibbasri.bsky.social, Rebecca Henderson, & @johncassidysays.bsky.social, on October 29, at Harvard Kennedy School. Register here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/share...
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Johanna Vogel @johannavogel.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Really interesting case study on transformation support in a 🇩🇪 industrial region. Here's just one feature: “The final design reflects an intentional choice to avoid setting legacy sectors and new industries against one another... 1/
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
In a new case study, Sebastian Buck and I unpack the origins & functioning of a €3 billion investment instrument established by the German state of Saarland. Since 2022, the fund has made investments with the twin aims of stabilizing existing industries and enabling long-term transformation⬇️
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social's Abundance has become a Rorschach test among policy analysts w/ much discussion focusing on the impediments that government may have imposed upon itself. But beyond that conversation is a more expansive state capacity project ssir.org/articles/ent...
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An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"Evidently, the state capacity needed to generate this abundance won’t just be a top-down federal imperative...We need to take an Everything Everywhere All at Once approach to building the institutional capacity required for an abundance of economic prosperity." @ssir.org ssir.org/articles/ent...
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An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social's Abundance has become a Rorschach test among policy analysts w/ much discussion focusing on the impediments that government may have imposed upon itself. But beyond that conversation is a more expansive state capacity project ssir.org/articles/ent...
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An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review @ssir.org · 08/08/2025
"The state capacity needed to generate this abundance won’t just be a top-down federal imperative. It’ll involve building out the capabilities of a range of local public and private institutions, the system hubs and their spokes." New piece from @rohansandhu.bsky.social
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An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
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markmuro1.bsky.social @markmuro1.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“Mapping the AI economy” My new report w/ @shriyared.bsky.social @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/articles/map... @shiraovide.bsky.social @profhicks.bsky.social @nickbunker.bsky.social @berkeleyolab.bsky.social @pkrugman.bsky.social @kevinroose.com @conorsen.bsky.social
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Absolutely no one: Me: here are my best 10 movies of the 21st century: (And 5 more: The Lobster, The Squid and the Whale, No Country for Old Men, The Dark Knight, LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring)
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social: "I worry about a politics that often sees only problems of corporate & oligarchic control. That is a politics with so totalizing a theory of power that it has a lost a clear view of policy... That is a world in which the left will fail, both substantively & politically"
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
It was very invigorating to be at - and help organize - the 25th anniversary celebrations of the MPA/ID program. Some reflections: www.linkedin.com/posts/rohans...
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#globaldevelopment #mpaid | Rohan Sandhu
At a moment when words such as international, development, and aid are under siege, I was very energized by the celebration of 25 years of Harvard Kennedy School's MPA/ID program, which reunited n...
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Jacob Greenspon @jacobgreenspon.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Pre-doc opening: Come work with @harvardrte.bsky.social on research about place-based policies, industrial policy, and local labor markets with Gordon Hanson, @drodrik.bsky.social, and the rest of our great team! #EconRA #EconSky
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Folks in the Boston area, we (@harvardrte.bsky.social) are hosting a panel discussion tomorrow with regional leaders at the forefront of building tech ecosystems in Colorado and Wyoming, Chicago, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sign up here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/ameri...
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The Reimagining the Economy Project is now on Bluesky! Follow our work here ⬇️
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Reimagining the Economy, Harvard Kennedy School @harvardrte.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Reimagining the Economy is an economics-centered program based at the Harvard Kennedy School. We work on local labor market, industrial, and productive development policies in the US & around the world. We combine rigorous research with practitioner insight. www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...
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Reimagining the Economy
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David Eaves @eaves.ca · 31/03/2025
Excited to share v1 of our new paper on the Economics of Digital Public Infrastructure. This work provides a conceptual framework for thinking about how to measure the ways infrastructure creates value. Real privilege to work with @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social t.co/ENfNTMTgdU
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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/publications/2025/mar/economics-shared-digital-infrastructures
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"The bedrocks of successful climate action are limits on greenhouse gas emissions & cooperation with countries where emissions are growing fastest. A myopic & imperialistic focus on domestic energy production will take the world in the opposite direction"
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
From @ifp.bsky.social's Brian Potter: where do Nobel Prize winners come from? | would be interesting to unpack how these trends correlate with public R&D investments, especially during and post WWII in the US www.construction-physics.com/p/who-wins-n...
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
.@emollick.bsky.social, @raffasadun.bsky.social, et al study 776 P&G employees & find large effects of #AI on collaboration & expertise: individuals w/ AI match the performance of teams without AI, produce more balanced solutions, & report positive emotions on the job papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The "supply chain" framing allows us to unpack the process, the rules, intermediary institutions through which "horizontally-differentiated policy actions" are designed, funded, and implemented within "vertically structured policy domains"
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We discuss supply chains for 6 domains: strategy and planning, business recruitment and retention, small business support, community redevelopment, workforce development, and technological innovation. Across all of these domains, policies are implemented via a range of local intermediaries
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Need to read, but the idea of place-based policy “supply chains” seems extremely helpful. Especially in a v centralised country like the UK 👇👇👇
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Finally, today's institutions and rules are an accretion of over 150 years of innovations and updates to policies. We trace this history - from the creation of land grant colleges in the 1860s to New Market Tax Credits, Empowerment Zones, Opportunity Zones, & Bidenomics in the last couple of decades
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Gordon Hanson, @drodrik.bsky.social, & my chapter for @nber.org's upcoming volume on place-based policy. We discuss the history of innovations in place-based policies in the US & unpack the "supply chains" through which these policies are implemented in different domains | www.nber.org/papers/w33511
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social's #Abundance is about government *effectiveness* - as opposed to efficiency. It flips the script & frames policy in terms of the outcomes we need to accomplish. As such, it's about *enabling* the state to be more ambitious, not constraining it (1/5)
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Big day for this genre of books in Cambridge — but terrible coordination between bookstores that @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social, and @yappelbaum.bsky.social are all doing book events at the *same time* 😐
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Apropos absolutely nothing, I'm giving up on current political affairs and rewatching all of The West Wing instead. Call me naive, but I need some semblance of idealism in my life.
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Understanding the supply chain for place based policy - nber.org/papers/w33511 "The apparatus is the product of 150 years of policy innovation, both top down & bottom up"
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Gordon Hanson, @drodrik.bsky.social, & my chapter for @nber.org's upcoming volume on place-based policy. We discuss the history of innovations in place-based policies in the US & unpack the "supply chains" through which these policies are implemented in different domains | www.nber.org/papers/w33511
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Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
In partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social, David Autor and I are seeking funding proposals from researchers conducting innovative field experiments on the labor economics of frontier AI. Expressions of interest due March 31. shapingwork.mit.edu/call-for-pro...
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Call for Proposals: The Labor Economics of Frontier AI - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Postdoc opportunity on industrial policies and related topics at the Reimagining the Economy program at Harvard www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/...
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CID Visiting Researcher Program
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 18/02/2025
Professional update: I've joined the Reimagining the Economy Project @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @harvardmwc.bsky.social as a senior research fellow, alongside Gordon Hanson, Dani Rodrik (@drodrik.bsky.social), @rohansandhu.bsky.social, and their excellent team. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Heather Boushey and Todd Tucker join Malcolm Wiener Center and the Reimagining the Economy Project as senior research fellows
The Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center and Reimagining the Economy Project welcome Dr. Heather Boushey and Dr. Todd Tucker.
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Cambridge, MA just passed one of the most — if not the most — ambitious zoning reforms in the US, legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories! docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Primer on Cambridge's Multifamily Housing Zoning
Primer on Cambridge's Multifamily Housing Zoning Cambridge City Councillor, Burhan Azeem The City of Cambridge, home to about 118,000 residents as well as Harvard and MIT, has had one of the most comp...
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We are hiring pre-docs at the Reimagining the Economy Program at Harvard www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...
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Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow Opportunity
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