Should richer nations help poorer ones in their tertiary or secondary sector?

[Alpha]

Then, that requires a change of mindset, which is indeed, very difficult to bring about. And which perhaps will take a couple of generations to come.

And it requires farmers to reduce work on their fields, their prime source of revenue, given the opportunity cost of time.

Listing what has to be done is easy. But that is only a first step to solving the problem. The real challenge is to find ways of implementing them.

[astarmathsandphysics]

I don't thinkpeople necessarily need to work less in the field. They do need to learn to produce more for the time they work. That is part of the lingo they need to learn.

[Alpha]

Well, you are right about that. But if changing mentality was an easy and timely process (because they also need to keep up with the technological pace), then I don't think countries in the world would be poor, in the absolute sense (because relatively, there definitely will be).

[astarmathsandphysics]

Everybody learns at their own pace. If someone doesnt know what the next step is to make their life better, a lot of the time it is not technology but organisation. When Europeans conquered the world it wasn't cos they had better technology - in many respects it was worse than Chines and Indian technology - but cos they were better organised.