Pastures new
South Korea exports a rural-modernisation scheme from the 1970s
THAT South Korea changed from aid recipient to donor in a generation is a source of national pride. In 1961 its GDP per capita was $91, then on a par with Bangladesh. Ferocious industrial growth has long been credited with transforming it into one of the world’s wealthiest countries. Now its president, Park Geun-hye, wants to remind the world of her country’s rural triumphs, too. She is touting a home-grown approach to modernising the countryside as a model for poor countries to follow.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Pastures new”
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