Reply #106: And if poor countries want to export to countries with the money to buy stuff?

[pampango]

Suppose a trading club of advanced countries does make some sense. We already have liberal trade agreements with Canada and Australia. Add in Europe and you'd have most of the advanced economies in the world.

Maybe let the poor countries form their own and trade with each other. MERCOSUR is an attempt to do this in South America, the African Economic Community does too, and ASEAN in Asia is a really large trading bloc.