We know this because we have seen it happen repeatedly: a poor, agrarian economy transforms itself into a middle- or even high-income urban economy in one or two generations. The key is to capture the window of opportunity for industrialization arising from the relocation of light manufacturing from higher-income countries.
北京—所有低收入国家都有实现充满活力的经济增长的潜力。我们知道这一点，因为过去曾经一再发生这一幕：贫穷的农村经济在一两代人的时间里摇身一变成为中等收入甚至高收入城市经济。关键是抓住高收入国家轻型制造业重新布局带来的工业化机会窗口。在十九和二十世纪是如此，今天仍然是如此。