Intellectual capital drives prosperity in every country. A cursory look at Japan, Israel China and South Korea confirms the assertion that the best resource any country needs in the 21st century and beyond is qualitative human resource. Have these countries any significant mineral, timber and cocoa and fertile land? Not much, isn’t it?
Now let’s do the math: ISREAL is about half the size of Togo; with total land mass of 21,000 sq km. Much of it is rugged and arid. It has a population of six and half million. It has no petroleum resource. Nonetheless, it exports chemicals, manufactured goods, fruits and vegetables. In fact, Israeli’s tomatoes are of high demand in the United States of America. Ghana is of the size of 238,537sq km. Much of the vegetation is tropical rain forest with the population of 21 million. Ghana neither exports fruits nor vegetables except the cultivation of cocoa which was handed down to this generation by a gentleman called Tetteh Quarshie, of blessed memory.
By every account, Israel shouldn’t be able to feed itself, let alone to be able to export food items to other countries. The fact is that, Israel has little or no water for cultivation, the land is 60% desert with rocky topography. One would like to ask how the Israelites did it.
The difference is qualitative human resource. Israel decided to focus on developing its “intellectual resources” vigorously by educating its citizens and attracting its human capital from anywhere it could be gotten.
