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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I was going to do a longer reply, but I feel I need to respond to this.
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Religious orthodoxy, low literacy, and unrelentingly high birth rates are tremendous drags on economic growth. Is it the outside world's fault that Muslim countries spend, on average, only 0.81% of GDP on research and development (global average is 2.5%)? Or that fewer than 20% of Indonesians and 8% of Egyptians believe in evolution? Or that fewer than half of women in Muslim-majority countries use any form of birth control (compared to two-thirds of women in the rest of the developing world)?
Do you have an explanation for why Egypt and India are going in opposite directions, despite having similar colonial experiences?