A German philosopher once said that Asian people have the future pointing out that they were going to progress soon, which already happened to South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.
Korea has large industrial progress, while Hong Kong has very good average per capita income comparing to other countries. Taiwan depends on small industries.
How this progress happens? I believe it depends on institutional change in the work during a certain period. In Egypt, there was a dramatic change when Napoleon brought the press to Egypt and when the family of Mohamed Ali developed the army and the Suez Canal. Development in Egypt has always been related to people and not ideologies.
Moving to Taiwan, it depends on small factories owned by families. Many big European companies decide to move its factories to Taiwan for many attractive economic reasons. Japan is very powerful economy though they don’t have too much factors. Egypt has the land, history, people, recourses and religion. Yet, it can’t achieve so many achievements.
Religions encourage us to work, but we talk much and work less. We have to produce our food and give greater concern to learning.
Japan and Singapore industrial progress was achieved based on education that they learned from Europe. Simple education, skills and industries that success is better than huge projects that fail. Changing the ideology and mind is more important than changing the cabinet. Good skills should be more important than loyalty to persons. Moreover, education should be the start.
