[eloff]

Really. Why don't you go through all 40 counties one by one and explain why it's a flawed experiment that proves nothing?

You've made up your mind without looking at the evidence, as you've already demonstrated your ignorance of history, and somehow think that qualifies you to reject all of it - without having even considered it. You've proved my point rather nicely I think.

[simion314]

I done it already for Korea , N Korea suffers from external interventions like sanctions, S Korea received a lot of money from US. So it is not a clean experiment.

Would be more simple if you find the perfect example from those 40 and let's talk that one.