[DrScientist]

Not sure I entirely follow - but I'd say while there are some places which are poor because they effectively have nothing to offer in exchange, many places that are poor are rich in resources and they are poor because the richer countries are in part rich because they to rip them off through corrupt resource extraction.

( a macro version of the rich exploiting the poor )

> People don't have children if they lack the economic means to do so.

Surely the very clear global trend is birth rate is inversely proportional to wealth - not the other way around.