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1 posted on 03/19/2006 4:48:59 PM PST by Lorianne
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lack of economic freedom, lack of property rights


2 posted on 03/19/2006 4:51:21 PM PST by georgia2006
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The following will make any country RICH!

1) Honest courts and police to enforce contracts and put criminals in prison.

2) profound respect for private property.

3) Free markets

4) Secure borders to keep out invading armies and hordes of refugees.

5) Rule of law and equality before the law.

Democracy is not necessary. If it were Hong Kong wouldn't be the powerhouse that it is.


3 posted on 03/19/2006 4:57:49 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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This hellhole is a typical liberal/socialist dream come true.


4 posted on 03/19/2006 5:01:49 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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No democratic republic has ever suffered a famine. Famines are "attracted" to disctatorships.

Free people are, by definition, free to direct their economic efforts elsewhere if a drought or a plague of locusts attacks the agriculture.

6 posted on 03/19/2006 5:03:32 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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The first clue that something is amiss with the traditional story is its implication that poor countries should have been catching up with rich ones for the last century or so—and that the farther behind they are, the faster the catch-up should be. In a country that has very little in the way of infrastructure or education, new investments have the biggest rewards.

Horse hockey.

8 posted on 03/19/2006 5:06:49 PM PST by Teacher317
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It takes a government to make a country poor.


9 posted on 03/19/2006 5:08:18 PM PST by captain_dave
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More comments on this article here.
10 posted on 03/19/2006 5:08:58 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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"its hard out there without toilet paper".. thats my RAP...
Can make you tough being poor..
11 posted on 03/19/2006 5:09:43 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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So in essence these so called independant nations currently ruled by tin-pot dictators were better off as European Colonies. Is that what the author is saying?

That the European Colony Pashas or whatever they called themselves gave the locals a better life that the "Elected" Tin-Pot Dicttors and perhaps they'd be better off if they returned to being European Colonies?


12 posted on 03/19/2006 5:09:49 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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There is justice only where just men rule. What is missing in all these places is justice. The first thing to do would be to shoot half officials and the entire political class. It matters who wins wars, they are not just some waste.
14 posted on 03/19/2006 5:14:49 PM PST by JasonC
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So what is different about this country and the entire disease ridden, corrupt, economic trainwreck of the continent of Africa?


15 posted on 03/19/2006 5:16:40 PM PST by hatfieldmccoy (Satan has a new name and it is Islam)
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The average Cameroonian is eight times poorer than the average citizen of the world

This non-sensical sentence always makes me despair of journalism as a serious profession.
Having one eighth the income does not make them eight times poorer. Below a certain level of existence, the comparative is meaningless...

16 posted on 03/19/2006 5:20:15 PM PST by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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already posted last week


17 posted on 03/19/2006 5:21:44 PM PST by King Prout (DOWN with the class-enemies at Google! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S CUBE!)
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Interesting. However, it raises the question -- why wait for the government to fix the road? Why don't the people band together and fill the potholes themselves?


19 posted on 03/19/2006 5:22:38 PM PST by expatpat
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Richard Lynn, Tatu Vanhanen. "IQ and the wealth of nations" Praeger, 2002, ISBN 027597510.


22 posted on 03/19/2006 5:29:35 PM PST by GSlob
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In his book Out of America, Keith Richburg tells a joke explaining why Southeast Asia has prospered despite corruption and why Africa hasn't:

Two sons of rich politically connected families attend college in the United States together. One is from a Southeast Asian nation while the other is from Africa. Years later, they decide to visit each other to see how they've done.

First, the African man visits his friend in Southeast Asia. As he drives up the highway to the mansion, he sees five Mercedes Benz cars parked in front of a 20 bedroom mansion, with a staff of 20 servants. His friend invites him in and takes him out to the patio in the back, where a highway can be seen in the distance. He gestures toward the highway and says, "See that highway? 20 percent." (Indicating that he skimmed 20 percent from the cost of the highway.)

Then both friends travel to Africa, where they arrive at a mansion with ten Rolls Royce cars parked in front of a 50 bedroom mansion, with a staff of 100 servants. The African friend takes his Southeast Asian friend out to the patio in the back, where nothing but jungle can be seen. He gestures toward the jungle and says, "See that highway? 100 percent."

Basically, in Southeast Asia, the level of corruption is low enough that things still get done while in Africa, the level is so high that almost nothing gets done.

25 posted on 03/19/2006 5:33:06 PM PST by Question_Assumptions
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This expectation seems to be confirmed by the experience of China, Taiwan, and South Korea—not to mention Botswana, Chile, India, Mauritius, and Singapore. Fifty years ago they were mired in poverty, lacking man-made, human, technical, and sometimes natural resources. Now these dynamic countries, not Japan, the United States, or Switzerland, have become the fastest-growing economies on the planet.

This is not rocket science, and one does not need multiple advanced degrees to see (or infer) the common ingredient:

Ruthlessness.

Elimination of class structure, and a ruthless absolute rejection of corruption in all forms, from the top down.
Marxism is the tempting illusion, but only free market ruthlessness seems to work; whether applied externally by the mean-exploitative colonial imperialists, or (very unlikely, almost impossible)internally from a few competent incorruptible and dedicated local leaders.

Ruthless means exactly that. Draconian, if necessary.

Singapore is perhaps the best example of the success of this paradigm.

26 posted on 03/19/2006 5:33:42 PM PST by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595881/posts


29 posted on 03/19/2006 5:39:05 PM PST by King Prout (DOWN with the class-enemies at Google! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S CUBE!)
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Sam Kinison said it best "you people live in a desert! move to where the food is!"


32 posted on 03/19/2006 5:42:46 PM PST by isom35
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Cameroon IQ, 70 is the mean, Might be part of the problem.


37 posted on 03/19/2006 5:50:57 PM PST by jec41 (Screaming Eagle)
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