1. I am tackling about Philippines also and my point there is that a country can be successful even when there is a presence of corrupt government officials..
2. You are asking me examples about how to be successful even without the help of government??
are the filipino-chinese businessmen are not enough to show u that they do their own initiative of living here in the Philippines without the help of our government and now are living of luxury because of their persistent effort in doing their business? take a look at the owner of SM malls, Jollibee and other chinese blood owned companies..
how about those people who are selling streetfoods? isn't that enough of an initiative to make their lives better? They didn't ask for government help to do that business..
How about those people who are making their way in MLM.. (kanang mga sikat ug legal ha..) are they not considered to be making initiatives to be financially free?