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I'm puzzled by your comment: >>" The authoritarian governments in South Korea, Taiwan, and China actually helped these countries get out of poverty because the
by RobertoG 8y ago
I'm puzzled by your comment:
>>" The authoritarian governments in South Korea, Taiwan, and China actually helped these countries get out of poverty because they could enforce policies that otherwise would not be popular, like redistribution of land to peasants and protecting infant industries from foreign competition while they developed."
Those are not popular policies? do you mean popular for the IMF and the World bank or what?
- jeffreyrogers 8y agoWell the land redistribution isn't popular with landowners, who tend to have a lot of power. The industry protection isn't popular with the IMF and World Bank and is often abused or helps corrupt people in government funnel money to their family and friends. You're probably right that sometimes there is popular support for these policies but it's hard to get them in place.