There are tigers and tortoises among our counties

By Anderea Morara

In the 1980s and 90s there was a lot that was written about the Asian Tigers — the small number of countries in the Far East that included Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and South Korea — which registered tremendous economic growth within a few years while other developing countries such as Kenya lagged behind as they laboured to implement the World Bank-sourced structural adjustment programmes (SAPs).