This should be titled "Strawmen that block progress for the poor". Few serious thinkers actually believe any of those supposed myths. Not one word about the e

This should be titled "Strawmen that block progress for the poor". Few serious thinkers actually believe any of those supposed myths. Not one word about the exploitation of labor and natural resources in "poor nations" by rich nations (&corporations). Not one word about economic sanctions imposed on several poor nations by the US and its allies. Gates sounds like the optimist against a world of cynics, but he ignores major reasons why these nations are poor in the first place.