Discuss The Causes Of Georgia's Downfall

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Will Georgia's GDP start to fall? In 1964, GDP per person was higher in Ghana than in South Korea; in 2013, it was more than 14 times smaller. The causes of South Korea's transformation are better known than the reasons for sub-Saharan Africa's relative stagnation: Korea has experienced good quality basic education, high savings, and foreign investment, less corruption and, critically, export manufacturing. Apart from those countries and states that have done it through oil or other natural resource endowments, no countries that have transitioned from low income to upper middle income status without developing a vibrant export manufacturing sector. In Georgia, there has been a decline over the last decades in manufacturing, a decline in