BlairWitch749
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Does Tanzinia have the chance to gain this role (they have been a lot more stable than a lot of their neighbors and have a good port and some natural resources)
Class judged by middle class.What are you smoking, and where can I get some?
Israel and Australia as developing countries in the same league as Pakistan and Egypt!? For that matter, Argentina, Brazil, Russia, or China in the same league as Pakistan or Egypt?
Well, there are always exceptions. Look at Botswana. Had it not been for HIV, I'd think it'd be more economically advanced - basically the African version of Argentina.
Botswana isn't an exception, it's the proof instead.
Look at your own statement, if not for the HIV impact of on Botswana's people, that nation might be more developed. HIV negatively impacted the only resource which truly counts: Humans.
I'll also point out that Botswana's development is based on exporting coal and electricity to South Africa. Ask yourself what will happen when, for whatever reason, South Africa no longer needs that coal or electricity. What engine will power Botswana's economic growth then?
The Asian Tigers deliberately re-invested the wealth generated from each of their economies over long periods of time to move "up" the development ladder. They went from making labor intensive goods to making capital intensive goods to researching and designing goods while paying others to make them.
Do you see any indication of Botswana making that effort? Or is Botswana's growth more a result of people formerly living primarily as subsistence farmers beginning to spend pocket money earned by stoop labor?