fazle abed legacy project
1 - helping nations end middle income trap - linkin one sdg university per 30 million peoples eg china needs 50 stanfords,
mits, oxbridges
2012 challenge briefing - audience califrnia - by fazle abed
Usually when the Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh calls me he is looking
for ideas on poverty alleviation, but back in 2011 I suddenly got a call asking me about a different sort of noble project
: did I have ideas on how china could avoid the middle income trap – it turned out the economist had just done a survey
on that https://www.economist.com/special-report/2011/06/25/beware-the-middle-income-trap
Do you have ideas about things that we (China) can do to avoid the middle income trap?
transcript 51:05 sir fazle abed
I said off the cuff I'll tell you one or two things that I think will be important
51:15
for you to do to avoid middle income trap -note the two countries that
have become high-income countries in our region during the last
thirty years are Singapore and Korea
51:29
and what
have they done that peer countries in the region
didn't do I can see only two things
51:39
one thing
singapore built a very high quality university designed to be
the powerhouse of creating jobs, and enterprise innovation all kinds of
things like that… so did korea…so if you want to build China as a
high income country then you have to build a dozen Oxford dozen Cambridge dozenHarvard/MIT and dozen Stanford
do that and then you China can build a high income
Society
52:22
And the ambassador said why is this?
so I said well it's because in order to build these
universities you need to endow them well and you have to give
complete
freedom to and for
the intellect- intellectual freedom will mean no
controls of state – you will have to forego that -- you
can't get the faculty to think only on what the party line is
52:56
the other thing is that they must be self-governing institutions -
50 world
futures youth curious universities - if you can build that then you will have a high income Society
If you cant then you fail
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context
note - over 50 years china and fazle abed shared the deepest system changes needed for girls to hold up half the sky- ie be
as pivotal to sustaining a nation as boys -
if
thats of interest to you search out chinese-bangladeshi alumni of girls unite world ending poverty - cf livesmatter.city entrepreneurialrevolution.city economistbank.com economisthealth.com