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One thing that helps countries develop the expertise to produce high qualities, is selling to fickle and demanding foreigners.

Export led industrialization has worked well for the Asian Tigers, and the quality of their products is decent enough.

It's also instructive to look at Europe's industrialization in the 19th century. The Brits famously demanded Made in Germany to be marked on goods to allow the British customer to detect the inferior products. Turned out, they weren't inferior any more.