Sondstead wrote:"Economic Advancement and Progress" doesn't include advancement and progress in poorer countries?
Not when said countries become dependent on said aid and their economies are slowly reduced into a form of debt slavery.
Instead of aid, taking from just one RL example, we could offer Microloans instead to encourage local businesses within said countries.
If the business succeeds it creates local jobs and new market opportunities as well as providing a living wage for its employees as well as profit for its owners to allow investment to expand the business or invest in other sectors.
The Country/Government that issued the loan gets a return on their investment, I.E. makes a profit.
A Win-Win...and one more step toward progress.
In addition...as quoted from your most recent SRR Sondstead World post..."Agricultural policy was the major stumbling block for the Centre Liberals, with fears that OEA membership would mean the abolition of grain and milk tariffs and a subsequent backlash from the party's agrarian base, and concerns remained even after the Prime Minister vowed that she would "rationalise, but not remove" trade barriers"I don't see what the big problem is, so you abolish tariffs. Just reverse course then and do the opposite, subsidies for the grain and dairy farms. That should pacify your party's agrarian base quite nicely. In fact, I'm surprised the Centre Liberals haven't/didn’t lobbied/lobby for subsidies yet especially as a condition for their support in approving membership to join this organization.