"What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism."

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Source : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “End of History and the Last Man”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

Francis Fukuyama

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