what should the rich nations be doing, as a policy matter, to help the low per capita income nations increase their per capita income numbers? I assume it isn't birth control programs, so what is it? Since our primary response IS population control programs and loans which keep third world countries third world countries, we as a nation wouldn't know, would we?
We prop up the very dictators you decry, because we can buy their strategic mineral and reserves, the cash for which they use to prop up their regimes.
Building up local infrastructure,
which combined with the type of institution JPII recommends here (as opposed to the corrupt UN he is suggesting should be dismantled) might just be a start.
We prop up the very dictators you decry, because we can buy their strategic mineral and reserves,P. Just who does the Pope propose we cut off, and of what, and with what consequence? Just which nations should have a regime change through economic warfare, per you of the Pope. Just what infrastructure programs should be in place that are not reasonably calculated to be looted or stripped, and where, and of what?
Airy generalities get no traction with me. Sorry about that.