how do countries grow?
October 14, 2009 7:25 PM   Subscribe

1. Want to understand how poor countries grow. What allows some to rise, while others stay still. 2. Seems to me we need to stop wagging our fingers at the pollution and waste of developing economies. We have benefited, and wasted, for years, and now others want to move up. How can we deny others what we have enjoyed? Isn't the mess part of the growth? Isn't the dirty, noisy city just possibly moving forward faster, growing, albeit not very attractively. And the sleepy, tranquil, cute place that everyone wants to visit may be stagnant, a dead-end? The people fleeing, while tourists move in. And maybe our long learning curve, recognizing and correcting our past mistakes and excesses, might serve as efficient lessons to the newer economies; that with so much information flowing so fast, the damages could be corrected faster?
posted by ebesan to Society & Culture (2 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This reads more like a series of opinions dressed up as rhetorical questions than an attempt to get a question answered; if there's a query hiding in here, maybe try to figure out how to emphasize that more specifically and try again next week, otherwise this just doesn't work for the green. -- cortex

 
1. You seem to be less asking a question as saying what you think in the form of a question. in hopes of having a conversation on topic [X].
2. Therefore, I'd have to say this smacks of chatfilter.
posted by dunkadunc at 7:29 PM on October 14, 2009


I'm unsure what you're question is, but you may want to look at W. W. Rostow's Stages of Growth model for one theory on how countries develop economically. I'm not saying his model is right or wrong, but it may be a good place for you to start looking.
posted by lilac girl at 7:34 PM on October 14, 2009


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