The world economy has changed profoundly over the past three decades, and with those changes have come new political strategies for national development. Revolutionary transformations in the demand for goods and in the way they are produced have affected long-term national growth possibilities, how governments relate to their national economies, and how national economies relate to each other. The world economy is becoming more competitive, more global, and increasingly dominated by information and communications technology.
Development is a complex enterprise.
A civilisation is a more or less coherent combination of technology and law, of social organisations, beliefs, values, and insights. If no conscious effort is made, the errors of the nineteenth century risk being repeated. Industrialisation will cause a rural exodus and proletarianisation. Social classes will crystallise and confront each other. Instead of a moneyed bourgeoisie, one will perhaps have a bureaucratic bourgeoisie, but the result will be similar.