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The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.
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- Heart
- Vicious
- Prosperous
- Trapped
- Vicious Cycles
- Third World
- Cycle Of Poverty
- Divided
- Aids
- Broken
- Massive
- Helpless
- Foreign Aid
- Country
- Rescue
- Thirds
- Nations
- Left
- Categories
- People
- Orthodoxy
- Cycles
- Vision
- World
- Three
- Heartless
- Poverty
- Taxpayers
- Wonderful
- Development
- Economics
- Third World Countries
- Dominant