They are the 2nd largest exporter of food with just 17M population and have maximized the yield per acre on many types of vegetables, cereals and flowers. What is so unique about their climate and canal system that it can’t be exported as a model to other countries?
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In the 1700s the Dutch engaged in a massively profitable slave trade, where as much as 40% of their economy was linked to slavery in some way. They invested these profits in their own small country and built themselves into a well educated, healthy and wealthy modern society. They now do their best to ignore or suppress those who bring up those they left behind.
For example why is Suriname, which was a part of the Netherlands up until the 1970s gdp 5,000 per capita, while the Netherlands is 55,000?
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