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It's a marvellously reassuring book for wealthy Westerners because it tells us thet poverty in the Third World isn't our fault.

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If the United States and any/all other countries supposedly responsible for third world poverty would disappear or have never developed, the third world would be just as poor as it is now, or has ever been.

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"If the United States and any/all other countries supposedly responsible for third world poverty would disappear or have never developed, the third world would be just as poor as it is now, or has ever been. "

Much, much poorer, I believe. However, they would be spared their envy of the Western countries that drives so much hatred towards us.