I was thinking more in terms of transportation infrastructure, though maybe from having so little they will end up with one that doesn’t reproduce a lot of past mistakes. It’s just hard to launch an industrial revolution with having as little of that as they had to start with.
Previously untapped natural resources are a good thing, esp. along with a well enough educated population with a good work ethic.
Previous lack of infrastructure? I’m not sure how that can be an advantage.
One way to a have a fast growth rate is to start out very low.
May be referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrogging ; but in general, we’d expect fast growth just from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_%28economics%29
I was thinking more in terms of transportation infrastructure, though maybe from having so little they will end up with one that doesn’t reproduce a lot of past mistakes. It’s just hard to launch an industrial revolution with having as little of that as they had to start with.