Today's @bopinion post is about how poor countries started catching up to rich ones.
It looks like decolonization just took a few decades to start working.https://bloom.bg/2yKQWGQ
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People seem to forget just how much Europe took from their 'colonies' which funded massive innovation and also decimated existing infrastructure. India was quite advanced.
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Don’t forget US colonialism. US turned most of Caribbean and Latin America into subject states with monoculture farming and primitive economies in the 20th century, through use of force and capitalist advantage.
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