Yet another HN article leading to an evening of reading wikipedia articles, etc. I see a lot of "developing country" comments. Trying to reconcile Madagascar wi

Yet another HN article leading to an evening of reading wikipedia articles, etc. I see a lot of "developing country" comments. Trying to reconcile Madagascar with Iceland, another island nation. Iceland has 300K people in 100K sq km. Madagascar is 25M in 600K sq km. Nobody thinks of Iceland as a low-income country. How do you explain it? Madagascar seems to boil down to a dictatorship supported by France and the IMF supported by the USA? Basically the world needs to figure out how to stop these nations from destroying others, then we don't need these so-called "lessons".