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 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 I fully agree that studying the successes and the failures of others (and in the own history) are important steps in learning.
@calestous I'm sure U know that. I'm not so familiar with Singapore economy. I just have impression that her situation is very specific ./
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