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by quonn 1917 days ago
> The reason why those poor countries are poor is because of those rich countries.

Having spent a considerable length of time in some of those countries, some of it volunteering, I seriously doubt this is true in general.

It‘s typically a problem of productivity (producing low value goods), corruption, education, technology transfer, culture and so on.

It would be nice to have a simple unifying theory but I doubt it exists.