Considering how many of the problems of countries like Ethiopia are self-inflicted by mind-blowingly defective governance, I wonder if they might be better off

Considering how many of the problems of countries like Ethiopia are self-inflicted by mind-blowingly defective governance, I wonder if they might be better off getting conquered by the (as-yet hypothetical) Wal-Mart Empire and exploited for cheap labor. On the one hand, mass exploitation is bad. On the other hand, serfs are more valuable when they're relatively healthy, can read and write, and so on.