Future, Present and Past

Future, Present and Past

By: Erreh Svaia

Caprine Dispersion

The future of the world is in Asia, and not precisely in the country that many would like to think: China, no, China is not the future of the world, although it is deeply related to it, the future of the world is in countries like Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam, countries with a robust and dynamic population, which have made profitable use of pragmatism and reformism to direct their economies towards innovation, education, growth and free trade, countries that have known how to use innovation to overcompensate for their lack of resources and thus "uphill", have developed particular skills to project their economies towards an unusual abundance in the rest of the world, the spearhead remains Singapore, a deeply pragmatic model that led to a humble island of fishermen, to become the Asian hub of commerce par excellence, with living standards for its population far exceeding those of from the US, China or the European Union, followed closely by South Korea, which has made education the main lever of development, in addition to Taiwan and Vietnam, with the latter as a curious addition to the already recognized "Asian tigers" ", Faithful communists with an intense passion for free trade that have made this country, an oasis for innovation, technology, manufacturing and trade in general, while China seems not to lose track of what happens in these countries , dares to experiment with hybrid economic systems mainly on its coasts within the "Chinese socialist" context, achieving very peculiar results thanks to its immense internal market and innovative vocation.

The present of the world is today in Africa, in countries like Ethiopia and Botswana that have managed to flourish admirably in the middle of a continent still convulsed, when less than 20 years ago Ethiopia, probably the oldest nation in the world, was hit by a brutal famine, which made it one of the poorest countries in the world, the solution was continuity, avoiding the extremist inclinations of the past, it sought to attract foreign investment in order to boost the country's infrastructure and the result was a complete success , with its growing industrial parks and energy developments added to the powerful agricultural sector managed to radically change the history of this country, making it an interesting case study and more recent example of moderate policies with a view to the future and openness to foreign investment have yielded vast fruits, in the case of Botswana, more unusual events (ethnic harmony, growth sustained growth, stability), for an African country, occur with singular frequency, a country with a powerful and stable democracy (which curiously grants its presidents periods of more than 10 years), one of the oldest in Africa (from the 60s), a particular focus on the well-being of the population (workers' rights, human rights, welfare state), and a fierce attack on corruption (which largely affects other countries in this continent), along a path that other powerful countries like Côte d'Ivoire and Namibia seem to follow, leaving behind previous stars like South Africa, who have not been able to find that stability and harmony so required and so proven successful in this continent.

The past sadly seems to be in America and Europe, which little by little are leaving their place as engines of the world, an America increasingly divided between the nations that make it up and inside its society, ideological extremes that continue to divide the countries and their populations between the left and the right, with few examples of as much needed moderation and stability as Chile, Panama or Uruguay, with unfortunate friction between blocks of countries that have been moving through extreme positions like the so-called Socialism of the 21st Century , the so-called Crony Capitalism, and the extreme right premiered with Trump and with Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, a violent America, armed to the teeth that begins to rival the Middle East in its rate of homicides and violent crimes, this at time that Europe is increasingly stagnating, abandoned by the US Trump, threatened by Putin's Russia, every day more prey to the nationalism that puts the United European ion against the ropes, a setback that sadly puts the old continent in front of its bellicose and monumentally violent past.