Amnesty international and other Western NGOs are moral sticks of rich countries to browbeat erstwhile colonies for not maintaining high living standards post exploitation.
NGOs typically do a lot of harm. They're the means by which high income countries enforce policies that keep developing countries in debt to them, in order to extract resources.
The 2011 book "The Dictator's Handbook" does a good job of detailing how this works.
The 2011 book "The Dictator's Handbook" does a good job of detailing how this works.