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Date: 2000-02-29 16:47:21

Comment:

I'll play the middle man of the "arguement." Third world countries should not have rely on someone digging them out of the proverbial "hole." Capital investment would probably not help things either. These corporations, though a help for a lot of people, would run the other people out of business, instead of pushing them along to get its competitors up to speed. I don't think that the third world countries need to spend all of the money they get on technology. These countries need to build on what they have. Every country has a strong point in something. For now, they need to put any money they receive in building the local economy, establishing good/fair economic relations with one or two countries to export their national product, and make it worthwhile for the trained professionals of that country to stay in whatever country they're in. This "brain drain" that's happening, though true, is not merely due to the fact that working in another country is more satisfying (monitarily, socially, etc...), but because it is not benefical/profitable to stay in their home country. Politics and economy aside, most people would rather stay in their home country, than move to a foreign one. If the governments of these countries would look at their situation, and do something to keep its trained professionals from leaving, then eventually the economies in those countries would gradually grow on their own. It would be only a matter of time before the country got up to pace with the rest of the world in the technology and medical sectors, as well as all other professional fields. 

Of course, you've got to look through a rose coloured glass to see some of these things actually working out. It's ideal, but not real. Many of these third world countries have not advanced because the government officials are so corrupt, and comfortable with their personal ways of life, that a change so dramatic would severly cut their amount of control. In which case, that country would need a good old fashioned overthrowing of the government... 

My $.02