I agree with the above. Looking at the situation of England in the 1700-1800s, the country was terribly disadvantaged compared to today, yet there was no richer country to come along and give handouts. So the country pulled itself up by its bootstraps.
Perhaps we should butt out and let people in other countries get on with things themselves.
On a slightly different tack, during the Islamic golden age the Arabic countries were in the vanguard of invention and discovery (algebra, medicine, paper, early universities) and I wonder what happened?
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