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the_sky_is_falling 168 points ago +168 / -0

Cut foreign aid completely.

Start working on trade deals with individual African nations, if you truly want those countries to get out of poverty.

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MatthiasBlack 12 points ago +12 / -0

Exactly. Right now, if you go to Kenya, you will se piles of clothes and shoes in the streets from our "charities" and aid programs. Those African countries cannot jumpstart an economy because they have a surplus of free shit from other countries. Unlike China and southeast Asia, which have budding cloth and tayloring industries (not dissimilar from the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries), Africa has no means of starting an economy centered on cloth- one of the key exports for any 3rd world industrializing nation, and it's because of our foreign aid and lobbyists who want cheap labor from China and to keep their tayloring businesses at the top.

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GoldenEarz 16 points ago +16 / -0

Those African countries cannot jumpstart an economy because they have a surplus of free shit from other countries

Also because they have an average IQ of 68? (68 is approx the bottom in 3% in Western civilization)

People with a 68 IQ are never going to build themselves a modern economy, or a modern Western standard of living.