The secret with developed nations
The difference between the poor countries and rich ones is not the age of the country.
This can be shown by countries like Egypt and India , which are 2000 years old and poor.
On the other hand, countries like Australia, New Zealand and Canada , which were inexpressive 150 years ago, are today rich and developed.
The difference between poor and rich countries doesn’t reside in the available resources.
Japan has a limited territory, 80% mountainous, inadequate for agriculture & cattle raising, but it is the second world economy. The country is like an immense floating factory, importing raw material from the whole world and exporting manufactured products.
Another example is Switzerland, which does not plant cocoa but has the best chocolate of the world. In its little territory they raise animals and plant the soil during 4 months per year. Not enough, they produce dairy products of the best quality. It is a small country that transmits an image of security, order & labor, which made it the world’s strong safe.
Executives from rich countries who communicate with their counterparts in poor countries show that there is no significant intellectual difference.
Race or skin color is also not important: immigrants labeled lazy in their countries of origin are the productive power in rich European countries.
What is the difference then?
The difference is the attitude of the people, framed along the years by the education & the culture.
On analyzing the behavior of the people in rich & developed countries, we find that the great majority follow the following principles in their lives:
1. Ethics, as a basic principle.
2. Integrity.
3. Responsibility.
4. Respect to the laws & rules.
5. Respect to the rights of other citizens.
6. Work loving.
7. Strive for saving & investment.
8. Will of super action.
9. Punctuality.
In poor countries, only a minority follow these basic principles in their daily life.
We are not poor because we lack natural resources or because nature was cruel to us.
We are poor because we lack attitude. We lack the will to comply with and teach these functional principles of rich & developed societies.
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I am so proud of the Singaporean advancement. They made a great leap in a relatively short period of time. More power to them.
Training is not by volume...it is by quality...yes you hear officials saying we have open budgets for training and this and that but they fail to provide quality training opportunities in the country.
They even fail to find the right incentives for nationals to learn. When you know that you will receive say 15000 QR even if you literaly do nothing then what is the incentive for you to learn
In other countries the incentive is survival and competition...the governemnt must find ways to encourage the nationals to learn
Yes brit, that's right, like I said education is only part of it, justice is another part. But who defines justice? The majority of the people? The already developed countries? From my experience in Egypt, I can see that democracy in developed countries was the key part of the development plan. It's the only way to give all citizens of the country their minimum set of rights. It's practically impossible to give every one no matter where he grew up, what his beliefs are and what he does for a living equal rights, but there are basic rights that prevent people from becoming ignorant, lazy and destructive rather than constructive. That's what developed countries managed to do right.
As for the education for all part, I am glad to tell u that all education in Egypt is FREE, all egyptians are doctors, engineers, it professionals, lawyers and accountants :) so it's not just education for all, It's proper education and sponsoring of the greater talents. don't you agree? :)
10. Law abiding and Strict law enforcement.
Singapore took only about 35 years to become a Developed Nation. Started from the scartch.
They don't even have their own water ;)
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For the survival of any society, i think Justice is the basic element...
You are not being pessimistic, but realistic..
Your points are valid, but miss one key issue.. The education of ALL..
Also, in my earlier posting I forgot to mention another ingredient.. Justice..
These two, going hand in hand can change the country..
but for nationals only. The amount of formal training and on the job training you talk about is extensive for nationals, so they certainly have the opportunity to be the best they can.
This theory is only a part of the explanation for the developing countries "arrested development" crisis.
However, the reason why nobody could solve it is that it's much more complicated than that.
There are many educated people from poor countries who received education in the best schools and universities of the rich countries, yet they didn't help develop anything in their countries even though a lot of them continue to try. This is because poor countries remain poor because of the actions of their governing authorities. The so called "poor countries" of Africa, Asia and Latin America (almost all of them) have the best spots in the world for rich people to enjoy their stay there with the forever rich local politicians and celebs. These rich people who got control of their whole countries' resources are only thinking of how to increase their own wealth (which they successfully do all the time) while avoiding the locals from rioting and/or causing political problems. The only solution seems to be the spirit of revolution, which is now missing in most poor countries because of the successful strategies of their rich rulers/dictators of making the people busy and on the brink of living and always having a single ray of hope ahead of them all the time. But then again look at the countries that do have revolutions, what do they gain? nothing but more poverty and extra bloodshed that doesn't come with accepting the poor life under a strategic dictator :)
Am I too pessimistic?
Thanks all
Agree with all of you...
Unfortunately I noticed throughout the gulf there are not good learning opportunities. I remember the time I graduated when I was looking for good training institutes and could not find real good ones...most were and still are commercial and the quality of trainers is not all that.
I think we need a bit more than education here...also on the job training...extensive training.
What you say is mostly correct.. However, there is one basic underliying theme..
"EDUCATION"
This is the foundation on which Ethics, Integrity,Responsibility, Respect to the laws & rules etc are built..
ye they created the mess they are in now, but you can guarantee within 5 years the energy and attitude of the people will be surging ahead again while some of the less developed parts of the world will still be struggling.
they were so developed eh??
,,,, that's why the global crisis happening now are starting from them!!
they have made so much developments that they even developed complications as how things were done...
i'll rather live a simple but stressfree life away from developments.
... hopefully in the near future, i will!!
Good one!
Totally agree with these principles.
it is thanks to the one who wrote this article...I only copied and pasted it...
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and you teach skills. Its as simple as that.
Don't know about no.8 though, sounds a bit batman to me...