Will this how Iraq and Afghanistan look 50 years from now

Robert Lawson takes a look at Korea then and now. From the barely subsisting agricultural economy in mid-1950s South Korea has managed to reach per capital income of $17,800 today. The description of South Korea in mid-1950s resembles that of Iraq and Afghanistan today. Let's hope both countries go the South Korea way.

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