It also involves, crucially, importing an essential intangible asset: knowledge. Economies can learn faster than they can invent, so less developed countries can achieve much faster growth than was experienced by today’s industrialized countries when they were becoming wealthy.
参与全球化经济造就了持续的高增长，而高增长必须参与全球化经济。这不仅仅意味着能够为潜在的巨大的出口市场生产产品；重要的是，它还涉及到引进一种重要的无形资产：即知识。经济体学习的速度可以超过其创造的速度，所以欠发达国家相比今天的工业化国家，在向富裕的道路迈进时，前者比后者的成长速度更快。