alt Hacker NewsArguably, just to leave them alone, neither exploiting nor trying to "help". It sucks and it hurts, but outside interference does not seem to help a society heal itself. This has been argued by more informed people than myself-- https://www.uvm.edu/~jashman/CDAE195_ESCI375/To%20Hell%20wit...
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signatoremo • today at 3:29 AM
Have you seen how active China and to some degree Russia have been in Africa? When there is vacuum someone will fill it.
codeforafrica • today at 2:27 AM
What would help is to buy their products and resources for a fair price.
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That’s true in order to truly change a society you have to no longer be an outsider, but that’s a level of entanglement that NGOs rarely do now adays.
The ones that do it though are all religious institutions so their goals are more social/moral rather than economic or geopolitical.