@maamikron42 There is a country that has emulated some of the lessons. It is the People's Republic of China. Lagos and Rwanda toom
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@calestous wealth gap in China btw super rich/booming zones - normal/countryside is more reason for concern than imitation (it seems to me)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@maamikron42 Who said imitation? Please read the article. I refer to very specific lessons.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@calestous ...and resource conditions very unlike anything one can find anywhere else in the world, in particular in Africa (is my feel)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@maamikron42 You seem to be mixing up copying with learning and adapting lessons. I know many countries doing it selectively.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@calestous ...simple 'copying' (and pretty thoughtlessly so, bc success is expected fast & wholesome) and disregards specific circumstances1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@calestous ...so that transposing successful approaches from there to the African condition seems particularly hard to me.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@maamikron42 You are constructing impossible scenarios and then declaring them so1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@calestous I was thinking if Egypt. I think different 'imported' economic programs were tried out there without impressive results...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@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.
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@calestous I fully agree that studying the successes and the failures of others (and in the own history) are important steps in learning.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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