paradoxically i am less sure if this was the case -in other respects - for any of the big wiinners uk russia, canada , usa - did lives of the poorest or historically abused in any of these 4 countries; however as a sct born in london i want to reserve my cricism for britain
britains rteally big additional responsibility was to free many colonies so their peoples could become productive and haooy- surely this needed more than turning over a system designed to extract from the peoples just to nationals- iuf friends of eg gandhi were correct in saying the british raj effectiveky took/taxed from the peoples 80% of natural assets and their work to beneft london then just handing over a broken system wasnt enough; i am well aware that britain was quasi-bankrupted by world war 2 but since we are talking about a quarter of the world's population why didnt bodies such as un or world bank help with a trnsitionary phase? i realise i am oversimplfying- communications were still so poor in 1945 that perhaps very few people in us headquarters felt they knew anything to contribute more to the indian subcontinent than london
if you go through every country thar gsined indepence from britain the great successes are superports at key trading crossrods with under 10 million unlike india's billion plus; even they merit careful study- lee kuan yew was among national leaders obsessed with jobs jobs hobs and harmonising cultures - a wonderful mix ensuring singapore is now the wisest and shared wealthiest nation with the possible exception of those small population nations with huge oil reserves
but if you go through other ex colonies or places that britain had excuded from world trade including the chinese mainland - india pakistan etc seem like cases that lost their way for decades; this brings me to bangladesh- a totally uniquecase by 1971 when its people finally fred themselves there was so little urban wealth for government to admister that the rural peoples/mthers networked ro rebuild the nation - by buildong their ow basic health services, food secrurity, finance, education they have also offere extrairinary learning to true long term parters especially those bringing tech since 1996 - following this logic her are the 30 most collaboratice cases for community building sdgs - all with a bangladesh village mothers energisation by love
do they help to provide lessons for anywhere else