In this post, I would like to do some commentaries about the book "A short history of the world." Written by H.G. Wells (1866-1946), who was a famous writer, author of many books, including, the very famous, "The time machine"(1895) and "The island of Dr.moreau"(1896). Besides, he was a journalist and historian. By the way, this book is entirely available in internet, search for it in goggle and you will can read another history about a great change through investment in research and education. The chapter LXIII, and the title is: European aggression in Asia and the rise of Japan.
Brazil has also a good history about great improvements through investment in reseach. In the 1973, was created Embrapa, it is a public company, to develop Brazil`s agriculture sector. At first, many brazilians scientists went to USA and brought back the cutting-edge agrotech from that time, but to create the agrotech for our conditions, take us too many years of our own reseach. Since then, Embrapa has made many real progress, including, transforming what was once regarded a unfit land for farming into a productive land, its main achievement has been to turn the cerrado green.
If you want to read more about this history, you can search in www.economist.com, and look for the report with the title of, "The miracle of the cerrado." Published in August,26th 2010.
