Africa can still learn important lessons from #LeeKuanYew’s work in #Singapore http://bit.ly/18WhSEn @Calestouspic.twitter.com/NNWF7APKtE
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@maamikron42 Who said imitation? Please read the article. I refer to very specific lessons.
@calestous ...and resource conditions very unlike anything one can find anywhere else in the world, in particular in Africa (is my feel)
@maamikron42 You seem to be mixing up copying with learning and adapting lessons. I know many countries doing it selectively.
@calestous ...simple 'copying' (and pretty thoughtlessly so, bc success is expected fast & wholesome) and disregards specific circumstances
@maamikron42 Why are discussing copying which isn't the focus of the article. Do you really think I don't know copying doesn't work?
@calestous ...so that transposing successful approaches from there to the African condition seems particularly hard to me.
@maamikron42 You are constructing impossible scenarios and then declaring them so
@calestous I was thinking if Egypt. I think different 'imported' economic programs were tried out there without impressive results...
@maamikron42 The fact that did it wrong doesn't mean there is only a wrong way to do it. Learning and copying are very different.
@calestous ok, I have read the article. I think that 'consistency' is indeed an important factor. otherwise: I find the geostrategic ./
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