Liberia is effectively the first NGO project. They've been reliant on handouts from the inception. It was a bad plan to take the losers of battles, make them more docile, and send them back to run a country with the force of western nations. With a start like that, it is no surprise that it is doing as well as Haiti.
That's a good question and there is never one answer for this stuff. There a good argument for geographical problems. People prosper the more they trade freely. There have always been strong trade routes between Europe and Asia. Sub-Saharan Africa has been increasingly cut off by the natural desertification since the roman republic. African and South American countries had difficulty trading with their own continental neighbors.
Liberia is effectively the first NGO project. They've been reliant on handouts from the inception. It was a bad plan to take the losers of battles, make them more docile, and send them back to run a country with the force of western nations. With a start like that, it is no surprise that it is doing as well as Haiti.
I don't know enough about Ethiopia to comment.
That's a good question and there is never one answer for this stuff. There a good argument for geographical problems. People prosper the more they trade freely. There have always been strong trade routes between Europe and Asia. Sub-Saharan Africa has been increasingly cut off by the natural desertification since the roman republic. African and South American countries had difficulty trading with their own continental neighbors.