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>> The year I was born, Zambia was more prosperous than Taiwan. Out of curiosity, what year were you born? I have family connections to pre-war Zambia/Zimbabwe
by TallGuyShort 17y ago
>> The year I was born, Zambia was more prosperous than Taiwan.
Out of curiosity, what year were you born? I have family connections to pre-war Zambia/Zimbabwe, and that situation immediately came to mind when I started reading this article.
- tokenadult 17y agoOut of curiosity, what year were you born? Near the end of Eisenhower's presidency in the United States. I actually heard that exact statement about the year my wife was born, a few years later. It's very hard for me to imagine now that Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, etc. were once wretchedly poor, but they were within my lifetime.
- dkersten 17y agoOr Zimbabwe was rich once? You never specified that Taiwan was as poor as Zimbabwe now (or that Zimbabwe was as rich as Taiwan now), just that Zimbabwe was richer than Taiwan.
- tokenadult 17y agoThe now fully industrialized countries of east Asia were poor a half century ago, and the newly independent countries of Africa were in several cases less poor. But later the countries in Asia grew and prospered much faster, resulting in the huge gap we see today.