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Intelligence as a public good offers huge gains

XN Iraki, an associate professor at the University of Nairobi

Intelligence is one of the scarce resources - in the private and public sectors. It is also scarce, going by the percentage of the population who are genius or near-genius based on Intelligence Quotient (IQ).

Paradoxically, information becomes intelligence because of its scarcity. Simply put, intelligence is valuable information available to only a selected few.

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