When you go through the cambodian situation, its frequent to ask yourself, what made some countries in Asia, develop so much in the last decades, while some others are sinking in the depths of poverty and corruption. After reading Philip Kotler´s "Marketing of Nations" you understand, that every countrie has there own background and that economic development is not a problem that only belongs to economist. Social, cultural and political factors should also be taken in consideration at a full picture of nation´s opportunity potencials. For a closer approach of cambodian situation, I will resume the key success factors that affected the developed East Asian models (Korea, Taiwan, Singapour and Hong Kong):
- The ideologies of the elites were congruent with growth oriented policies.
- Non economic elites were included in the wealth sharing programs as beneficiaries of growth.
- The honest bureaucracies and economic technocrats were insulated from narrow political preassures
Proffesor Dwight Perkins, explains where the honest bureaucracies and economic technocrats come from:
"These countries recognize that if they failed in economic terms, their societies were going to be swallowed up by external powers and they knew it". In any of this countries there were local landlords elites that oposed against the new policies made by the goverment(as in Philippines or Latin Amerca), nor deep ethnics splits (as in Africa).
You cant see any of this key factors in cambodian road to development (if there is any). Corruption is not a path for development.
J. J. Vila
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