[sb057]

Rwanda has prospered for the past three decades while Malawi has floundered because Rwanda is run by an effective dictator engaging in developmentalist nation-building. Malawi has no equivalent power center, and certainly none with the beneficence to try and raise up their countrymen.

[alephnerd]

Rwanda also got significantly more foreign aid than Malawi [0] and other peer countries in Southern and Eastern Africa.

A lot of Rwanda's success is overstated as well as I've pointed out before [1].

A better model from an LDC perspective would probably be Uganda.

[0] - https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/DT.ODA.ODAT.GN.ZS?locat...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43375524