Mr. Wheelan writes about all things that play a significant role when it comes to the economy and wealth of the country. He mentions the important factors such as human capital, geography, openness to trade etc.
The world´s poorest countries are mostly in Africa - partly because of a bad infrastructure, education, location... No one can say that it´s just and only Africa´s fault, that they´re poor. On the other hand, we can say that Slovakia is poor and we´re the only one to blame.
Slovakia has a great position. It´s in the middle of Europe, and that means that we can easily trade with all of the neighbouring countries. This gives us a tremendous opportunity to use it and to drag as much foreign companies (that would give us the work opportunities) as we can. But unfortunately, Slovakia is still stuck in the old mind-set of communism, which almost destroyed the economy of all of the former countries of the Soviet Union. Slovak people trust to the false promises of the famous politicians (raising the retirements, trains for free), and they vote for people that are closely related to the corruption. People in Slovakia caused a significant damage to our country willingly - ten years ago we elected a political party, that privatized huge part of Slovakia, destroyed the national market and at that time, people in Europe perceived us as the "dark hole of Europe" full of suspicious relationships between the politicians and the Mafia. Even though we´re not struggling with most of the things that Wheelan mentioned (we have good education, location etc.), we do not really use it. We keep willingly destroying our country by electing Mafia into the government and therefore sustaining poor. I´m upset.
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