Economic success is easily measured by the lengths that people will go to in order to share in it. Take language learning as an example. The number of Chinese secondary students studying English is now greater than the population of the US. If you want to know where people see the brightest future, then trace the paths that the young, the educated and the economically mobile are prepared to follow.
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