priorities for promoting rapid economic development in poor countries is wrong.We

are fortunate that is it, because new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.The

findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.Ironically, the first evidence for this idea appeared in the United States.Not

long ago, with the country entering a recessing and Japan at its pre-bubble peak.The

U.S.workforce

was derided as poorly educated and one of primary cause of the poor U.S.economic

performance.Japan

was, and remains, the global leader in automotive-assembly productivity.Yet

the research revealed that the U.S.factories

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