<Bradford DeLong>-----
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> >where do opec countries stand in your picture ?
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> >jc helary
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> Except for Iraq, Indonesia, and Nigeria, the big oil producers are
> all relatively rich.
rich in term of gdp per capita but what about wealth ditribution ? can't it be said that saudi arabia (for ex.) is exploited by the us (and the west in general) thanks to a clique they keep in power at the detriment of the population (incl. migrants) ?
plus the original post was mentioning 'exploiting most of the world' and you restrict this to imports from countries with a gdp per capita inferior to 1/3 the us. there are other forms of exploitations like importing qualified migrants, creating dependancies on exports etc that would probably give a better picture of how the biggest economy in the world is exploiting the rest of it. don't you think ?
jc helary