Wrong path?: The Philippines’ failure to industrialise as compared with its neighbours continues to be lamented, the writer argues. — Unsplash
IN the Old Town of Split, Croatia – a Unesco World Heritage Site – one has the sense of being fully in Europe as conjured in popular culture: people dining al fresco under the shadow of ruins dating back to late antiquity, and partaking of the Adriatic Sea’s bounty as fellow tourists with gelatos and shopping bags walk by.
And indeed, one would not be mistaken for placing Croatia within this imagined Europe.
